Foreign-born students wade through enrollment process

Montgomery County school officials registered 85 new international students representing 35 countries during a one-day foreign-student enrollment session Wednesday. That’s merely a fraction of the more than 19,000 children from other countries that international admissions supervisor Nivea Cordova-Berrios said will attend Montgomery County schools during the 2007-08 school year.

During Wednesday’s one-day enrollment session in Rockville, administrators had to verify student and parent identities and county residency, recommend grade placements and credit transfers, test students’ English skills, ensure students had the proper immunizations and make school assignments.