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## Key Facts

- Advocates want the city Education Department to hire 150 people to make sure students in homeless shelters get to school every day.
- Chronic absenteeism — defined as missing more than one in ten school days — is a big challenge citywide this year, and it’s more pronounced among students in homeless shelters.
- Last school year, 64% of students living in shelters were marked chronically absent, compared to 28% of their peers in permanent housing.
- Daily News front page for Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, about the lack of WiFi in New York City homeless shelters.

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