Council Speaker Adrienne Adams demanded Wednesday that the Department of Education “get a handle” on the placement of thousands of migrant kids in city schools

Adams specifically insisted there needs to be enough bilingual teachers to teach and care for the deluge of asylum-seeking children enrolling.

Her call to action from the DOE came after The Post exposed that PS 33 Chelsea Prep in Manhattan had just one certified bilingual teacher despite a sudden influx of migrant students who don’t speak any English.

“That is one of the serious problems with an influx of children with no plan for them,” Adams said of the city’s lack of preparedness to handle the migrant influx.

“The DOE has to get a handle on this.”

“We have to ensure that the children coming into the schools have Spanish speaking teachers or Spanish speaking individuals in those schools, interpreters in those schools,” Adams added.

City Hall didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

District 2 Superintendent Kelly McGuire, who oversees PS 33, tried to allay the concerns of parents at a Community Education Council District 2 meeting on Tuesday night, saying the school was working to hire bilingual substitute teachers.

“We are hiring people who fit a bunch of different categories — we are hiring substitutes who are bilingual, we are hiring fully licensed transitional bilingual teachers,” McGuire told the parents.

McGuire added they were also trying to bring back Spanish-speaking teachers who may have been relocated to a different district “when we have a bilingual need.”

“That does take time,” McGuire said of hiring full-time teachers. “We don’t want to hire people that are on our school budget who we don’t love and are fully invested in making sure they’re the highest quality staff we can hire.” 

It comes after a frustrated teacher had earlier told The Post that non-Spanish-speaking staff were “overwhelmed” by the lack of resources, saying: “It’s a very challenging situation.”

City Councilman Eric Bottcher, who represents the area and toured PS 33 with McGuire Wednesday morning, acknowledged that he witnessed migrant kids — easily identified by green ID tags that hang from their necks — in classes that were only taught in English.

“The school recently accommodated approx. 60 new students from asylum seeking families, who are being housed in a hotel near the Empire State Building,” he said in a series of tweets in the wake of his visit.

“We observed the classrooms that had the newly arrived students. The largest one had 32 students. Each classroom had a teacher and a teacher’s aide. The instruction was in English,” he continued.

“We observed one classroom that was for English language learners with Spanish language instruction, that had approx 20 students.”

Meanwhile, parents in Staten Island — where hotels are filling to the brim with migrants — fear their public schools will be the next to become over burdened as asylum-seeking kids start enrolling.

“As a community we are fuming, not with these poor people, but with Biden,” a mom, whose daughter is in second grade at PS 26, told The Post.

“This school cannot handle more kids without drastically lowering educational standards. This is not me being hysterical. This is just a fact. Manpower is stretched too thin, and space is too limited.”

A father whose 9-year-old daughter attends PS 26 added that their school was already crowded and “bursting at the seams.”

“They had to covert the library and the cafeteria to make more classrooms. I don’t see how the school can function if they add more kids,” he said. “There are a couple of teachers who speak Spanish, but nowhere near enough to give these kids the services that they need. It’s an untenable situation.”

A mom at PS 44, where migrant children have also recently enrolled, slammed the ordeal as a “hopeless situation” — for asylum seekers and her own kids.

“No one with any heart could ever say no to these kids, but the cost will be immense,” she told The Post. “If academic standards go down because of an influx of non-English speaking children, parents will revolt. It’s not a matter of political correctness, it’s fact.”

The father of a second-grader at the school criticized Mayor Eric Adams for having “no plan” for the deluge of migrant students.

“Everything about this situation is ad hoc, and everybody — the migrants and the local kids — are dealing with the fallout,” he said.

It comes after Mayor Eric Adams, no relation, said 5,500 migrant kids had enrolled in the city’s public schools in recent months as migrant families flooded into the city.

Adams, who has so far refused to blame President Biden for his controversial border policies, declared a state of emergency last week over the spiraling crisis that has seen nearly 19,000 migrants come to the Big Apple since May.