Colorado’s budget committee has been hashing out legislation that would provide $24 million for schools enrolling new arrival students. On Friday, they approved the proposal for consideration.
As more than 3,500 migrant students have enrolled in Denver Public Schools since the beginning of the school year, the hubs are increasingly serving their families as they build new lives in Denver.
The proposal comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case involving school board members in California who blocked parents on Twitter and Facebook.
Not everything has been smooth, but staff and parents say the good outweighs the hard.
Jesus y Leiker son dos de los más de 3,200 estudiantes recién llegados, muchos de ellos de Venezuela, que se han inscrito en las Escuelas Públicas de Denver este año.
Jesus and Leiker are among the more than 3,200 newly arrived students, many of them from Venezuela, who have enrolled in Denver Public Schools this year.
The vote followed a pitch from the school’s principal to keep Wyatt open by enrolling migrant students and subletting some space.
But some teachers and parents are fighting to save the school.
The data suggests that school police officers, who were permanently brought back this fall, are ticketing and arresting students less frequently than before.
“How fair is it to identify a concern but then not have the resources to address the concern?” one social worker asked the school board.