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For many migrant families new to Colorado, settling in includes enrolling their kids in school.
Denver Public Schools has taken in many of these new-to-country students. Adrienne Endres, the district's Executive Director of Multilingual Education, said they’re happy to do so. But with new student enrollment surging after a key funding cutoff point from the state has passed, paying for it could get tricky.
The district welcomes new students every year, but this isn't just any year.
"This is unprecedented,” Endres said. "This year has been dramatically different in both the quantity and the rate at which they've arrived."
Read more: https://www.9news.com/article/news/education/student-enrollment-surges-dps-costs-to-welcome-migrant-kids/73-d1c36ce7-57a3-4f86-acc8-901d0426ed08
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