Dozens Of Sacramento Students Remain In Afghanistan, Districts Say

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Dozens of section students stay successful Afghanistan pursuing the wide evacuation efforts.

The San Juan Unified School District said 40 of its students stay portion the Sacramento City Unified School District said 8 students from 3 families remain.

“We are precise acrophobic for the information of our Sac City Unified students who are inactive successful Afghanistan,” said Superintendent Jorge A. Aguilar. “This concern is harrowing arsenic each time these students stay successful a Taliban-occupied state is different time that their lives are successful sedate danger.”

In a quality merchandise sent retired by Sac City Unified, Aguilar said they are moving intimately with legislature representatives and stay hopeful the children volition beryllium capable to instrumentality to the U.S. soon.

The territory said immoderate of the families person reported that they were turned distant from evacuation flights. Some reported they were adjacent the blast tract astatine the Kabul airdrome that killed much than a twelve U.S. work members and much than 160 Afghans.

“Sac City Unified stands successful solidarity with our exile community,” Superintendent Aguilar said. “Enrolling children and attending schoolhouse is simply a captious mode that exile families link with their caller community, and we invited families from Afghanistan and different countries with unfastened arms. We besides recognize that establishing a caller location does not lessen concerns astir household and friends near behind. Our territory volition proceed to enactment the needs of our exile students and their families who whitethorn beryllium navigating other accent and trauma astatine this time.”

Sac City Unified said it received 476 exile students betwixt 2016-2020, and 36 conscionable since this July. The territory said it anticipates further Afghan refugees this twelvemonth and has added further enactment and staff, successful summation to reconvening a Refugee Task Force.

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San Juan Unified said it has a full of 1,700 Afghan refugees successful its district.