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Exchange Students Come Here With A Price Tag
As the leading English-speaking host country of foreign exchange students, our nation as a whole has seen an increase in high school exchange participants of about 13% in the past decade. And a national high school student exchange organization says more then 200 thousand will be coming to a school district near you soon.
La Crosse School District says Associate Superintendent, Troy Harcey says the benefits of hosting exchange students is huge.
And those costs are around $14 thousand a student. Harcey says the main core of exchange students here come from Germany and China.