Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos insists she’s working to make sure migrant families feel safe sending their children to school. Advocates and principals say they’ve seen students stay home due to fears of increased immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.

“We are absolutely committed to making sure that every single student in New York City remembers that this is a safe and inclusive space for them,” Aviles-Ramos told NY1 after an event marking World Read Aloud Day in the Bronx.

“We are doing multiple trainings on our policy to make sure that families and principals know that schools are safe spaces,” she continued. “And in the event that someone does come to the school, that there is a process in place, a judicial warrant is needed. But that messaging needs to be clear not only to the school district, the school leaders and the district leaders, but also to the families, so they know that these are safe spaces.”

But there have been some mixed messages. Last week, when Aviles-Ramos was in Albany, she acknowledged to lawmakers there that attendance had dipped in the weeks following the inauguration.

Mayor Adams, however, has argued attendance should be compared month over month. In the Bronx, Aviles-Ramos was asked about the disconnect.

“There are a number of things that contribute to attendance dips from weather to, quite frankly, the fear of parents sending their children to school during these times. So, variables — there are a number of factors that contribute to a dip in attendance,” she said.

A short time later, at his weekly City Hall press availability, Mayor Adams was again asked about attendance.

“You don’t measure attendance week by week. That’s not how you do it. There was a lot of things that was happening that week. Cold weather, was a short week. I think the Regents was happening that week. That’s why you don’t do week to week,” he said.

Critics have argued the mayor has been too deferential to the Trump administration.

“There is this desire that people seem to have of, they just want to fight, fight, fight. I don’t want to do that,” Adams said.

The president is proposing to disband the federal Department of Education and its potential impact on the city.

“There would be a potential for about $2 billion of federal funding to be cut from our budget. And so that would mean cutbacks to certain programs and supports for our schools,” Aviles-Ramos said.

There have been no reports of federal immigration authorities trying to enter any city schools.