CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming is now home to a handful of the over 100,000 children who fled Central America without a parent in recent years.
The federal government says it has placed 19 from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in Wyoming since October 2013. Because the number is so small, the government won’t provide a county-by-county breakdown to protect the children’s privacy.
The children are expected to attend school as they wait to see if they can stay in the country but the state education department doesn’t keep track of whether they enrolled or where. If all did, they would account for just 0.02 percent of the nearly 93,000 students in public schools.
Most of these children are older than students who enter school not knowing English and have gaps in their education.
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