DeKalb Schools Registering Thousands of Immigrant Students

Hundreds of immigrant children and their families spent the night outside the DeKalb Schools’ International Welcome Center last week. Parents apparently thought if they didn’t register their children for school last week they wouldn’t be admitted to school this year. But DeKalb Schools Spokesperson Quinn Hudson told WABE the district is accommodating all 21,000 students.

“Because we are at the beginning of the school year, we did have a bit of a surge of people coming in to have their children evaluated and assigned,” he said. “But, our system has worked fine; we do about 60 children a day, about 300 a week.”