Posted on October 26, 2020 by Noah Goldberg, Michael Elsen-Rooney and Shant Shahrigian in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Noah Goldberg, Michael Elsen-Rooney and Shant Shahrigian The city plans to install Wi-Fi in city-run homeless shelters after the Daily News highlighted issues homeless students are having accessing the internet to attend their remote learning classes. Mayor de Blasio made the announcement Monday, following a News front page story that detailed threats from school administrators and truancy officers some students have received after they missed classes due to internet connectivity issues. “The instruction I have given to the Law Department and to Social Services is to ensure that every shelter gets Wi-Fi, to send teams out to literally go shelter by shelter and simply ensure not just for that student, but for the whole shelter, Wi-Fi is in place. We’ve got to stop this and make sure everyone has what they need,” de Blasio said at a press conference Monday.
