An influx of migrant children tests the preparedness of NYC schools

ViewDamien, age 5, was giddy with excitement as he left a Manhattan homeless shelter, sometimes running and skipping along the sidewalk accompanied by his wistful mother, a migrant from Ecuador.

"What I want for him is a future," Kimberly Carchipulla said in Spanish of her son, one of nearly 800,000 New York City public...