U.S. Schools Work to Help Iraqi Students Catch Up
Seven years after the United States went to war in Iraq, schools in this Southern California community are trying to figure out how best to educate hundreds of children displaced by the conflict, many of whom missed years of schooling.
The United States started to accept large numbers of Iraqi refugees in 2008. Since then, more have come to El Cajon than to any other American city. The two school districts here enrolled about 1,600 over the past two school years.
For districts such as the Grossmont Union High School District, the biggest challenge has been trying to help Iraqi teenagers who arrive without any credits get a high school diploma. El Cajon Valley High School is enrolling a steady stream of 16- and 17-year-olds who lived in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, or Turkey after they fled...
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