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How Are School Systems Responding to the Needs of Immigrants, Refugees, and Unaccompanied Minors?
Marking the release of an MPI report, this webinar focuses on how schools have created and expanded systems around the identification of newcomer students’ immediate and ongoing academic and socioemotional needs, and how they designed programs and curricular pathways to balance these needs with state policy constraints.
A Profile of Current DACA Recipients by Education, Industry, and Occupation
DACA holders are a largely middle-skilled, economically integrated population. Under the Trump DACA termination, they would lose work permits at an average pace of 915 per day starting March 2018.
Beyond Teaching English: Supporting High School Completion by Immigrant and Refugee Students
U.S. high school completion for newcomer students requires trauma support, mental health services, and tailored academic pathways well beyond language instruction alone.
Are States Recognizing and Responding to the Needs of Their Dual Language Learner Children?
On this webinar, MPI analysts outline key findings from their national demographic and policy profile on Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and discuss the implications for early childhood education and care programs and systems that seek to provide equitable access and quality education for DLLs. The webinar marks the release of the U.S. profile and profiles for the 30 states with the largest DLL populations.
Protecting the DREAM: The Potential Impact of Different Legislative Scenarios for Unauthorized Youth
The 2017 legislative proposals to grant status to Dreamers could cover up to 2.1 million conditional status holders and 1.7 million eventual green-card recipients, MPI estimates.
All Eyes Turn to Congress, Following Trump Decision to Terminate DACA Program
President Donald Trump's 2017 decision to end DACA passes the onus to Congress, as roughly 790,000 recipients face loss of work authorization and deportation protection.
Analyzing State ESSA Plans for English Learner Accountability: A Framework for Community Stakeholders
The federal Every Student Succeeds Act's English Learner provisions give community stakeholders tools to evaluate state plans and hold schools accountable for student progress.
The Education and Work Profiles of the DACA Population
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients hold higher-skilled jobs and more education than unauthorized peers—gains DACA program termination would largely reverse.
Weathering Crisis, Forging Ahead: Swedish Asylum and Integration Policy
Sweden's 2015 asylum surge buckled its reception system, and the border controls and benefit cuts that followed may undermine the immigrant integration they were meant to protect.
Strategic Opportunities for Including English Learners in ESSA State Accountability Plans
Amid implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act, this discussion focuses on practices and options that states could adopt to hold schools accountable for English Learners’ achievement in the fairest and most accurate manner.
