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HISD Opens Doors To Evacuated Students

Temporary Enrollment To Last 30 Days, Maybe Longer

POSTED: Wednesday, August 31, 2005
UPDATED: 6:07 pm CDT August 31, 2005

The Houston Independent School District opened its doors Tuesday to students evacuated from Louisiana or Mississippi because of Hurricane Katrina, Local 2 reported.

District Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra has agreed to accept students from the storm-ravaged area who are staying in Houston-area shelters.

Parents can take their children to the HISD school closest to their shelter and enroll their children. They will need to provide one form of identification showing the child is from Louisiana or Mississippi.

"We have discussed this with the state and understand that we can keep these kids for at least 30 days without them having to provide any documentation that shows anything about shots or academic records," HISD spokesman Terry Abbott told Local 2.

According to the Texas Education Agency, students will be classified as homeless since they are living in temporary living arrangements.

The temporary enrollment will last 30 days, but HISD officials said they would work with the TEA if a child needs to stay in the Houston area longer.

HISD has set up a hotline to answer questions about temporarily enrolling children in Houston-area schools. Call (713) 892-6699 Thursday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Texas Public Schools To Enroll Refugee Children

Gov. Rick Perry announced Wednesday that Texas public school districts will enroll children of Hurricane Katrina refugees sheltered within each district.

Perry and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco agreed to a plan that would move at least 25,000 Hurricane Katrina refugees from New Orleans to Houston. Most of the refugees are sweltering in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. The plan calls for them to be moved to Houston's Astrodome.

Perry said the TEA has been directed to provide all needed support for districts having to absorb the additional children from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

The governor said Texas wants to do all it can to comfort children who have -- in his words -- "almost overnight been uprooted from their daily routines."

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