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After Haiti earthquake, influx of students never arrived in Miami schools

District says fewer survivors came to its schools, and those who did were not as poor as expected
Jan. 18, 2011

From The New York Times: After the earthquake last year in Haiti, theMiami-Dade school district expected to enroll thousands and thousands of survivors arriving from the devastated country. A year later, the district has 1,403 survivors — the highest number in the nation, but far below what was predicted. The district also expected most evacuees to be poor; but many were not. Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho says most of the earthquake survivors who sought out Miami schools “were definitely middle and upper-middle class.”

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