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Connecticut Schools To Receive Federal Money For Evacuee Students

At least 1,800 displaced students enrolled in Connecticut's public schools, including about 40 new schoolchildren at the Maria Sanchez School in Hartford.
Ryan Caron King
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Connecticut Public Radio
At least 1,800 displaced students enrolled in Connecticut's public schools, including about 40 new schoolchildren at the Maria Sanchez School in Hartford.

School districts in Connecticut that took in evacuees in the wake of Hurricane Maria will receive $10.6 million in federal aid from the United States Department of Education. The money is the long-awaited funding that will be used to help schools that took in students from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Charlene Russell-Tucker, the chief operating officer of the Connecticut Department of Education, said the department is in the process of distributing the award after it came down Monday and that should take a few weeks.

“This federal funding is really providing mechanisms to reimburse districts for their costs last year,” Russell-Tucker said.

The money will be given to districts based on the schools’ count of how many students they took in. Districts will receive $10,000 for each student with a disability, $9,000 for each student designated as an English-language learner, and $8,500 for others.

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