Private-Sector Students Hit by Disaster Finding Opportunities in New Schools
Educators in private schools reached out last week to offer seats in schools to students uprooted by Hurricane Katrina. They tended to give top priority to helping students from schools that looked most like their own.
Many administrators waived tuition for a semester or the whole year for students affected by the hurricane, and some extended their school days to accommodate them.
Some 55,500 students from religious and other private schools are believed to be displaced, including the 49,500 children who attended about 100 Roman Catholic schools in the...
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