Posted on 05/04/2015 11:15:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington -- Kevin faced a traumatic journey to the United States in search of a better life.
The 19-year-old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador faced yet another set of challenges when he arrived in the United States last year and enrolled in school.
The teenager is one of 200 students enrolled in the first-year International Academy for English-language learners at the District of Columbia's Cardozo Education Campus, a school-within-a-school for students who arrived in the United States within the past 18 months.
The struggles and successes of Cardozo's recently arrived students and English-learners provide a peek into the experiences of the surge of unaccompanied children and youths who streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border and entered American classrooms last fall.
Cardozo's academy for newcomers is based on a model developed by the Internationals Network of Public Schools, a New York City-based nonprofit that focuses on serving immigrant students. The network has 19 schools in districts ranging from Oakland, Calif., to Alexandria, Va.
Close to half the students at Cardozo's academy are 18 or older so they face a tight timeline to learn the language and make up sizable schooling gaps. The students can remain in the public school system until age 21.
Last summer's influx of unaccompanied minors isn't a one-time phenomenon.
An estimated 39,000 immigrant children will enter the United States as unaccompanied minors this federal fiscal year, according to a recent analysis from the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based research group.
The extrapolation is based on detention figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the first five months of the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. The number would represent a significant decrease from the 68,000 apprehended in fiscal 2014.
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Why are they there to begin with?
Tax parasites..
Tried to squeeze out a tear-nope, the well’s run dry.
These schools can demand and GET more money whether or not the illegals stay in school...
It’s a win-win for the schools (i.e.-NEA)
” The 19-year-old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador faced yet another set of challenges when he arrived in the United States last year and enrolled in school. “
Well, his friends are robbing, raping and even murdering Americans. Last summer’s illegal mob is working out so well....
My sympathy App just crashed...
Great, just great, let’s drop standards even more, to accommodate these poor youtes.
Hello third world county here we come. Nice to know ya, USofA.
Trying to give a st*t.
Failing.
In U. S. Schools, U. S. Taxpayers Strive to Adjust...
Whatever “challenges” the poor darlings have to go through here, it must be better than where they’re from or they wouldn’t be here. Just another attempt to drum up sympathy and boo-hoos for criminal invaders who came here for their own benefit, without a thought for what Americans want, or what’s best for us.
I assume the schools that ban clothing displaying the American flag tomorrow are reflective of these poor kids and their struggle to “adjust.”
Ha,try sitting in a tiny first grade seat when your 19!
Sorry moderator, couldn't express it any other way.
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