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Updated: 10:16 AM Sep 7, 2005
Displaced Students Enroll Without Grades, Shot Records
Thousands of displaced students are enrolling in Texas schools without grade transcripts or shot records.
Posted: 10:30 AM Sep 7, 2005 |
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When people move, they normally take their children's health and school records with them, but Hurricane Katrina has left thousands of families facing anything but normality.
In Houston, counselors and administrators are trying to register thousands of students living in large shelters for classes.
Children are being accepted without shot records or grades because those may have been lost in flood damaged areas.
The state of Texas has opened its public schools to displaced families.
As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, 121 displaced students had enrolled in Killeen Schools, 21 had enrolled in Waco schools and 14 had enrolled in Temple schools.
The 26 school systems in Harris County are all expecting a jump in enrollment.
Officials estimate that as many as 10,000 additional children may eventually attend classes in the city of Houston's public schools.
That could cost local taxpayers about $60 million.
Officials say they're hoping for federal and state aid to cover the costs of providing lessons for displaced children starting class far from home
Although the influx is putting a logistical and financial strain on schools, Paul Houston, the executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, says, "Districts will keep taking the students and figure it all out later."
HOW YOU CAN HELP: HURRICANE ASSISTANCE WEB SITES
Click Here For Letter Of Hope Web Site To Send Letters To Displaced Hurricane Survivors
Click Here For More Information About Waco Shelter Plans And Resources
Click Here For More Information About Killeen Shelter Plans And Resources
Click Here For More Information About Temple Shelter Plans And Resources
Click Here For OneStar Foundation Web Site
Click Here For Habitat For Humanity Web Site
Click Here For Information On Disaster Relief Appeals From The Better Business Bureau
Click Here For Reports On National Charities From The Better Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance
Click Here For Charity Tips From FEMA
Click Here For American Red Cross Web Site
Click Here For Salvation Army Web Site
Click Here For Second Harvest Web Site
Click Here For Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund Raising Campaign Web Site
Click Here For Catholic Charities Web Site
Click Here For Lutheran Disaster Response Web Site
Click Here For Lutheran Social Services Of The South Web Site
Click Here For National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Web Site
Click Here For Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Web Site
Click Here For United Methodist Committee On Relief
Click Here For Episcopal Relief & Development Web Site
Click Here For Information On Southern Baptist Relief Efforts
HURRICANE INFORMATION RESOURCES
Click Here For Texas Work Force Commission Web Site
Click Here For Hurricane Relief Information From U.S. Department Of Labor
Click Here For Texas Health And Human Services Commission Web Site
Click Here For Texas Education Agency Web Site
Click Here For GulfCoastPhotoFreeway.Com Missing Persons Web Site
Click Here For Katrina Shelter Web Site
Click Here For Missing Kids Web Site
Click Here For Hurricane Refugee Contact Web Site
Click Here For WWL-TV Survivors Web Forum
Click Here For National Hurricane Center Web Site
Click Here For National Weather Service Web Site
Click Here For Hydrologic Information Center For Information On River Flooding
Click Here For Federal Emergency Management Agency Web Site
Click Here For Louisiana Homeland Security Web Site
Click Here For City Of New Orleans Web Site
Click Here For Louisiana Governor’s Web Site
Click Here For State Of Mississippi Web Site
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