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Area schools brace for Central American refugee kids
In letter to Obama, Deal objects to arrival of border children without notice
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Area school officials say they don’t know how many refugee students, if any, will enter local schools this year but they are prepared to teach them as they would any others. Hall County Schools Superintendent Will Schofield said it won’t be clear until after school begins whether any of the 1,154 refugee children who came to Georgia between Jan. 1 and July 7 this year will attend Hall County schools. But the district already has programs in place to assist children who are facing challenges such as learning English as a foreign language.