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Making it Work: Parents Against the Odds Keep Their Children Engaged in Virtual School

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 - by Kara Grant

The CDC reported that the spread of COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted low-income, minority communities. Here’s how some families at the epicenter of the pandemic stay on top of their children’s online schoolwork.

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Undocumented Queens High School Kids Work Factory Jobs to Pay the Bills

May 13, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Aleksandra Konstantinovic

Central American immigrant teenagers in Queens work overnight at under-the-table factory jobs to help families pay their bills and debts. Somehow the students make it to school the next morning.

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Children Fleeing Central America find Safe Haven in a Queens High School

March 24, 2016April 23, 2016 - by Aleksandra Konstantinovic

The Queens High School for Information, Research and Technology, a small, struggling school in Far Rockaway, took in a large percentage of the more than 700 Central American refugee children who flooded into the U.S. in the last two years.

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