Some migrant students celebrate first — and last — days of school only weeks apart as CPS scrambles to enroll them

Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Venezuelan migrant and graduate Adrian Davila gets a kiss and takes a selfie with his mother Marisela Adames following the eighth grade graduation ceremony for John A. Walsh Elementary School students held at Benito Juarez Community Academy in Chicago on June 2, 2023.

“We are well-equipped and committed to serving every new student, including those students who have arrived in recent months with their families from Central and South America, Asia and Europe,” the school district said in a statement. But in its recent statement, CPS said it is looking to recruit more bilingual staff to be able to respond to the increase in enrollment of bilingual students and to make resources in Spanish available for students.

Migrant students from Venezuela and their mothers, Cristina Calderon, third from right, and Jenny Aparazero, right, leave their temporary shelter at Piotrowski Park and walk to Emiliano Zapata Academy on May 24, 2023. The alderman said that the migrant children enrolling in the neighborhood schools could offset the recent enrollment declinel over the past years and the loss of population in the area the past 10 years.

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