The chancellor said about 40 migrant children could enroll in public schools in the city.
“We will ensure that students have access to the services needed, and if they reside in a particular area, we will ensure that they have access to their neighborhood school,” Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee said in a news conference. Public school districts cannot bar students from enrolling based on citizenship or immigration status.
He added DCPS has a “strong welcoming center” that will support migrant families who decide to enroll in the school system. The district enrolls more than 49,000 students, about 15 percent of whom are English learners, according to data from the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education.More than 7,000 migrants from countries including Venezuela and Nicaragua have arrived in the nation’s capital since April, when Texas Gov.
Local aid groups have stepped in to receive the new migrants and have placed many of them in temporary shelters and hotels. This month, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine, who is elected independently from the mayor and controls his office’s spending, announced a $150,000But many of these groups are strained. With some migrants sleeping outside Union Station and in parking lots, Bowser has called the situation a humanitarian crisis.
This week, the Defense Department for the second time denied her request for help from the National Guard to receive the influx of migrants. “We struggle with a broken immigration system in our country, and we know that cities alone cannot fix it,”
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