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In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016 photo, Abdulhamid Ashehneh, 12, works on English language exercises with fellow students in a class filled with refugee children at Cajon Valley Middle School in El Cajon, Calif. According to the U.S. State Department, nearly 80 percent of the more than 11,000 Syrian arrivals over the past year were children. Many of those children are enrolling in public schools around the country, including Chicago; Austin, Texas; New Haven, Connecticut; and El Cajon, which received 76 new Syrian students the first week of school.. (AP Photo/Christine Armario)

In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016 photo, Abdulhamid Ashehneh, 12, works on English language exercises with fellow students in a class filled with refugee children at Cajon Valley Middle School in El Cajon, Calif. According to the U.S. State Department, nearly 80 percent of the more than 11,000 Syrian arrivals over the past year were children. Many of those children are enrolling in public schools around the country, including Chicago; Austin, Texas; New Haven, Connecticut; and El Cajon, which received 76 new Syrian students the first week of school.. (AP Photo/Christine Armario)

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