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This Couple Has Opened Their Home And Their Heart To Dallas’ Refugee Children

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This summer, KERA’s education reporters are profiling folks making a difference in North Texas schools. We’re calling them American Graduate champions. Today, we check in with a husband-and-wife team — Laura and Alex Laywell. They spend most of their days working with refugee kids in Dallas’ Vickery Meadow neighborhood. At night, they open their home to them.