Amid Record High NYC Homeless Student Population, Calls Grow For Laundry Machines In Schools

Amid Record High NYC Homeless Student Population, Calls Grow For Laundry Machines In Schools

By Julian Shen-Berro, Chalkbeat New York This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters More than a decade ago, Principal Joseph Mattina noticed students at P.S. 23 Carter G. Woodson were consistently arriving at the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, elementary school without their uniforms. Initially, Mattina grew frustrated with the students, asking why […]