A recent report finds that the New York City Department of Education (DOE) does not keep track of the number of students that request a transfer to ensure a student is safe from bullying or other attacks.

This news comes after Mayor Bill De Blasio, and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña promised to transfer students who were victims of bullying immediately. Prioritization of safety transfers come as part of $8 million in sweeping reforms to the city's anti-bullying measures.

The DOE told NY1 education reporter Lindsey Christ that it doesn't know how many students request safety transfers, how many requests the DOE denies, and how many families reject the transfer offers.

The DOE did report, nonetheless, that it has transferred 1,513 students to other schools to keep them safe.

Ms. Christ, argues, nonetheless, that without information on outstanding requests and denials, the DOE has no way to identify whether a school has a bullying problem.

"If they don't know how many students are requesting to get out of a given school they have no idea that that school is in crisis," Ms. Lindsey during the NY1 segment in the video. "But what if one school has 200 kids requesting a safety transfer and the principal's just not helping them get the paperwork in, and they're not being granted that safety transfer?"

The DOE's Office of Enrollment (OSE) just transferred a 10-year-old student only after NY1 aired the news segment quoting his complaints.

Other boys bullied him by saying he was terrible because he was Hispanic. According to the father, the teachers would witness the incidents, and if Lance defended himself from his aggressors, Lance would get in trouble.

The father filed a complaint with the DOE, and the agency's representatives called him back over a month later. Superiors at the DOE told the representatives to call the father back after NY1 aired the news segment on safety transfers last week.

Ms. Christ says that parents need to be "unbelievably persistent" to ensure the DOE tends to their complaints.

Fortunately, the news story focused on a city-wide problem that the boy happened to be facing. What about the other children which news stories do not feature? Is it fair that the DOE only helps children that appear on the news?