Lynn, Mass.
With fewer than ten days to go before the beginning of the 2014–15 school year, the federal government placed 45 illegal-immigrant children in the Norwalk, Conn., school system. The children illegally crossed the border this summer, along with tens of thousands of other illegal immigrants coming from Central America. “Not only were they children who were from outside the country and going to be in a very strange environment, with no English-language skills, but it also turned out that at least 28 of them had very poor Spanish skills and hadn’t been in school for years,” says Michael Lyons, chairperson of Norwalk’s board of education.
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