Upper West Side school with migrant students holds Thanksgiving feast with global cuisine

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The menu featured turkey, stuffing, pierogis and pernil al horno.

A Manhattan elementary school transformed by an influx of new migrant families has created a new Thanksgiving tradition that aims to bring everyone together over turkey, stuffing, Dominican-style roast pork and pierogis.

P.S. 145 offers an English track for neighborhood kids, plus Spanish and Russian dual language programs. Garcia said over the past two years, the school has received aThe Department of Education does not track students’ immigration status, but says that 48,000 children in temporary housing have newly enrolled at the public schools in just over two years.

“They were so broken with that experience,” Spanish dual language teacher Elaine Beckerman said about her students' journeys to the Mexican border. She said she emphasized to them that they are safe now. PTA co-President Lauren Balaban said her son, who’s in the Spanish dual language program, has started showing off some Russian words at home. “Everyone's blending in,” she said.

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