Poor Rosa Bracero. She had a choice: take her Regents exam, graduate from high school and attend technical college at the expense of putting a roof over her family members' heads or, sit through a mandatory seven hour meeting with a shelter intake program and not graduate, obtain higher education and better herself. Homeless kids miss a lot school. Shelter programs need to change their hours and screen children after school hours. Isn't education essential for having a brighter future? Officials sited that make-up Regents tests cost lots of money. I say, "Pay now or pay later." Luckily the Coalition for the Homeless is on the ball. Both the NYS Education Commissioner and the city are apparently working to rectify this.
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