Schools grapple with obligations to migrants in shelters
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Schools grapple with obligations to migrants in shelters:
While a government contractor bears responsibility for educating children at the highly guarded center, local school officials say they stepped up partly because of a law that calls on school systems to educate any child, anywhere within their district.
Brownsville Superintendent Esperanza Zendejas said she felt a responsibility to honor the spirit of a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmed all children in the United States are entitled to enroll in their local public school district for a free education.
Zendejas said the district also has an obligation to work around the troubling circumstances of such a vulnerable population of children, just as the law enforces for homeless children. She said her school district is well-equipped and willing to handle the important task, and ready to provide teachers and special education, bilingual and support services.
“The question of who gets educated in our country is coming up and my belief is everybody should receive an education if you are in this country,” Zendejas said.
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