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New Influx of Haitians, but Not Who Was Expected
Miami
Last year after the earthquake in Haiti, Alberto M. Carvalho, superintendent of the Miami-Dade schools the fourth-biggest district in the nation, with 345,000 students expected to enroll thousands and thousands of survivors arriving from the devastated country.
He was wrong. A year later, his district has 1,403 survivors the highest number in the nation, but far below what he predicted.
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