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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.
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.
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.
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.
Differing DREAMs: Estimating the Unauthorized Populations That Could Benefit under Different Legalization Bills
The five DREAM Act-type bills introduced in 2017 differed sharply in scope, with MPI estimating eligible pools ranging from 2 million to 3.6 million, depending on each bill's requirements.
Dual Language Learners: A National Demographic and Policy Profile
Dual Language Learners (DLLs) make up 32 percent of young children nationally. The U.S. and 30 state fact sheets here offer a sociodemographic sketch of the DLL population.
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.
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.
Quality for Whom? Supporting Diverse Children and Workers in Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
Early childhood rating systems risk marginalizing culturally diverse providers and may drive out the workers best positioned to serve the growing U.S. child population with immigrant parents.
