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Cartoon of a boy with backpack holding papers, looking up at two school buildings across a field with a sunset sky.

Cartoon of a boy with backpack holding papers, looking up at two school buildings across a field with a sunset sky.

This advocacy plan is about closing the gap, the gap refers to to the time between when a child is taken into an ORR facility, and then discharges and can go to a nromal high school. The gap is what happens when kids spend weeks or and months or even a year or longer in a temporary ORR facility. ORR facilities are required to provide education services but even though students are going to school every day, they eventually leave the facility with nothing official to show for it. No transcripts, no credit, nothing that they can have for themselves which helps them to complete a high school diploma, or graduate from high school on time. See more