Some migrant students celebrate first — and last — days of school only weeks apart as Chicago scrambles to enroll them
CHICAGO -- Dressed in a red graduation gown and collared shirt, Adrian Davila grinned widely as his mom planted a kiss on his cheek at John A. Walsh Elementary School at Benito Juarez Community Academy last Friday as the family celebrated his graduation from eighth grade.
The Venezuelan migrant had been in the school for a month.
“We are so proud. We are so thankful,” said Davila’s mother, Marisela Adames. The family is staying in a makeshift shelter in the area after spending days in a police station.
Davila is one of the countless migrant students who enrolled at Chicago Public Schools just weeks and days ahead of the end of the school year Wednesday. With the clock ticking, CPS had made a concentrated effort to enroll as many children of asylum-seekers as it could, even
