The state also wants Maximus to help enroll the poor in managed care plans in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Outreach counselors, known as navigators, provide information about the plans and help enroll applicants.
A spokeswoman for the Board of Education, Margie Feinberg, asked colleagues from the special education division on Wednesday to call Ms. Reznikova and help enroll Roza in classes.
Another episode features Jennifer Garner travelling to her home state of West Virginia to help enroll impoverished kids in early education programs.
Unless the problems can be fixed soon, they threaten to undermine the ability of the health care exchanges to help enroll some seven million uninsured Americans in 2014.
Mr. Sha'ani said that if children did not have identity papers, their village head could vouch for their identity and help enroll the children.
Further, the Health and Hospitals Corporation has enrolled 71,000 in Medicaid and currently has 65,648 children in Child Health Plus, while the state has contracted with nonprofit groups to help enroll thousands more children in the last few years.
And having used community groups to help enroll children in Child Health Plus with great success, it hopes to leverage that experience as it moves adults into the new program.
But under the mayor's new plan, the city's schools, hospitals, food stamp offices, police station houses and others would work to help enroll more than 900,000 people eligible for government health insurance who are not now covered.
For example, Families USA, a liberal advocacy group and strong supporter of the law, would like to see more money to pay for "navigators" to help enroll the uninsured in the new health care marketplaces.
