Puerto Rican schools have been closed since the Category 4 hurricane made landfall on Sept. 20, battering the island and knocking out the electrical grid and communication systems. Edwin Meléndez, director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York, said his conservative estimate is that more than 200,000 children and adults will leave Puerto Rico for the mainland. The Miami-Dade County school district has enrolled about a dozen Puerto Rican children. To anticipate which areas of Orange County could experience surges of Puerto Rican students, the district is studying maps of where the existing population resides, Ms. Jenkins said. Boston superintendent Tommy Chang said his district was expecting Puerto Rican students to arrive in the first week of October.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 02, 2017 13:13 UTC