
Dallas
ISD is planning to enroll hundreds of students this week. All of them are
evacuees from Hurricane Laura. They enrolled in school on Tuesday from the
hotels they're living at.
This
year Back to school has been different for everyone. But for Hurricane Laura
evacuees now in Dallas hotels, they are being asked to sign up in a whole new
school district.
Three
Dallas hotels used their Conference rooms as school enrollment centers Tuesday.
Laptops
were unloaded. Plastic dividers served as shields between parents and staff.
That
was how Dallas ISD and the Dallas city managed to enroll more than 600 children
and allow them to sign up for school.
Dallas
ISD Trustee Miguel Solis said, "It's eye-opening". "And I think
it's something that we missed given all the other news that we are dealing
with."
According
to reports, more than 2,600 Laura evacuees are living in Dallas. Many are
staying in hotel rooms provided by the city.
Solis
said, "When you don't know if you have a house to go back to in a place
that you're not familiar with, so any normalcy that we can provide for these
kids we're committed to."
Families
who signed up for school Tuesday declined to give interviews.
Solis said, "Working with the city to make sure that kids get a good education while they're away from home."
