INDIANAPOLIS — A Perry Township school is a top three finalist for a global award for its efforts embracing a growing population of Burmese students.
Burkhart Elementary Principal Darlene Hardesty said teachers and administrators have spent about two decades building relationship with churches and community organizations to provide food, clothing and whatever else these families need to adapt to life in Indiana, Principal Darlene Hardesty said. Many refugee families arrive in Indiana with little more than their luggage. Early on, Hardesty said, teachers were seeing Burmese students show up at school without winter coats or decent shoes.
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