Schools extend break for immigrants – Santa Ana, California
Tagged: California, Mexico, Santa Ana, studentPosted on: December 20th, 2006“A Southern California school district where 92 percent of the students are Latino has extended its winter break an extra week, in part to give immigrant families time to travel home to Mexico and Central America for Christmas.
Officials in Santa Ana, a working-class city 40 miles south of Los Angeles that has long been a magnet for immigrants, say they decided to lengthen the school holiday after finding that many students were absent anyway”
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