Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, said Wednesday he wants to double the size of a program for homeless students at public schools in a plan shared exclusively with the Daily News.

The small pilot program, called “Every Child and Family Is Known,” pairs students in Department of Homeless Services shelters with individual school staffers, who hold daily check-ins with children and weekly meetings with their parents. At last count, 1 in 8 city school kids did not have a stable place to call home.

The two-page plan, detailing a promise he made on the Democratic primary campaign trail , is to grow the number of students served from 3,200 to 7,000 children in his first year as mayor, before expanding citywide to all homeless families. While

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