NORFOLK - It looks like the crisis on the southern border will impact two local school systems.
The town of Norfolk and King Philip Regional school systems may be required to educate some children being housed in the temporary homeless family shelter the state recently set up in a former Norfolk prison.
Our partners at The Sun Chronicle reported on Friday Gov. Maura Healey's office notified officials from the two school systems on Thursday that some children at the shelter may be attending their schools.
“We wish to clarify that we were advised Tuesday by the state not to expect any new students from the latest changes to the emergency shelter system in Massachusetts due to the five-day stay policy at the site,” Norfolk Town Administrator Justin Casanova-Davids, King Philip School Superintendent Rich Drolet, and Norfolk School Superintendent Ingrid Allardi said in a joint statement.
“Wednesday the state clarified to municipalities that students could possibly be enrolled,” the statement read.
Federal law requires school-age children in shelters to be educated locally as soon as possible.
Both school districts have homeless education liaisons on the staffs who would assist families.
