The White House is standing by the decision from local officials to provide in-person schooling to migrant teenagers in San Diego before children in the county’s public school system return to classrooms.

The San Diego County Office of Education will start as early as this week teaching about 700 migrant girls, age 13 through 17, in English and the arts while they are being sheltered at the San Diego Convention Center.

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