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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Alabama Education Officials Seek To Reassure Hispanic Population

Politico (10/6, Lee) reports that Alabama interim education chief Larry Craven released a statement Tuesday seeking to "calm fearful parents after many Hispanic students stopped showing up in school in response to Alabama's new immigration law." Craven assured parents that "kids will be enrolled even if they don't have birth certificates," and said "that while a contentious provision of the law upheld by US District Judge SharonBlackburn last week requires all students enrolling on or after Sept. 29 to present their birth certificate, they will be accepted at school even without documents."


 

Montgomery Superintendent Laments Law's Impact. Montgomery (AL) Advertiser (10/6, Bitter) reports that Montgomery Superintendent Barbara Thompson and other district officials "said the state's new immigration law already is having a significant impact on the system with the potential to cost students valuable class time and the system money. 'It's scary for our children,'" Thompson said. "Schools officials said within the past several days there have been an unusually high number of absences for Hispanic students."

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