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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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A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 16, 2011, Section A, Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: New Influx Of Haitians, But Not Who Was Expected. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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