Posted on 08/15/2015 6:33:22 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The School District of Philadelphia’s special registration for immigrant students who speak a language other than English closes on Aug. 28, giving families of such students roughly two weeks to register their child for the upcoming school year.
The school year begins Sept. 8 for grades 1 through 12, and on Sept. 12 for kindergarten students; interested families should contact the Multilingual Assessment Center at (215) 400–4240 and selecting option 1. The office is open for registration Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.
Student registration packets are also available through the district’s website at www.philasd.org/announcements/New-Immigrant-Student-Registration-Packet.pdf.
Last year, the center registered more than 800 students from more than 70 countries. Collectively, those students spoke more than 40 different native languages.
The district also noted families shouldn’t be concerned about registering their child based on their immigration status. The district referred to Plyler v. DOE, a U.S. Supreme Court decision which held that it is unconstitutional to deny free public education to children who are not legally admitted into the United States.
City immigrant populations have been on the rise since Mayor Michael Nutter’s signage of a a pair of executive orders, starting in 2009.
“All city services, including but not limited to the following listed services, shall be made available to all city of Philadelphia residents, consistent with applicable law, regardless of the person’s citizenship or legal immigration status,” read a portion of one order. “[Those services include] police and fire services; medical services, such as emergency medical services, general medical care at community health centers and immunization; testing and treatment with respect to communicable diseases; mental health services; children protective services and access to city facilities, such as libraries and recreation centers.”
That order also stipulated that law enforcement officials alone are allowed to question an individual’s immigration status, or those who work for a municipally–governed service or program. Nutter’s second immigrant executive oder, signed in 2014, ended the procedure of detaining individuals without a warrant on behalf of Immunization and Customs Enforcement.
“No person in the custody of the city who otherwise would be released from custody shall be detained pursuant an ICE civil immigration detainer request,” read a portion of the most recent executive order, “nor shall notice of his or her pending release be provided, unless such person is being released after conviction for a first or second degree felony involving violence and the detainer is supported by a judicial warrant.
“The police commissioner, the superintendent of prisons and all other relevant officials to the city are nearby required to take appropriate action to implement this order.”
And earlier this summer, Jim Kenney, winner of May’s democratic mayoral primary, joined with pro–immigrant groups Juntos and Philadelphia Stands United to support Nutter’s stance on immigration and to roundly reject Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments on immigrants.
“I also would wish that the United States congress would be as animated and as energetic about gun violence and education as they are about holding immigrants without a warrant,” Kenney said. “Our neighborhoods are not safer if people are afraid of the police. They’re not safer if they’re afraid to come forward and be a witness. They’re not safer if the relationship between the police and the community is a negative one.”
Mayor’s Office of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Executive Director Jennifer Rodriguez said Nutter has “repeatedly stated that a piecemeal approach to immigration is not effective and has called onto congress and the federal government to address our broken system by enacting reform that reflects the welcoming values that our nation and our city were founded on.”
Should have had a 2nd major in Urdu to insure future employment.
51% of the voters in this country are so stupid I'm surprised they can draw breath on their own.
I guess it would be just too much to ask that they be taught English.
I didn’t realize that many different languages could be spoken in Killadelphia.
The more confusion the better.
Ask Valerie Jarrett, Bill Ayers, Rev, Wright, Hillary, etc.
This kind of crap is killing us. We import these people and they not only want welfare programs, they also want teachers, court interpreters, and forms in their native languages. It’s time for mass deportations, not more imports.
They are.
Going to the bank, going to the grocery store, driving in traffic, in my neighborhood
ain’t what it used to be.
So the State wants to replace God and ends up with a Tower of Babel.
At this point it’s not proper to call what’s happening immigration, it’s colonization. We are the flop-house of the world.
And how did the story of the tower of Babel end?
When you go to a flophouse, you have to pay a quarter-—or fifty cents.
These ‘immigrants’ don’t pay nothing.
They get free welfare, food stamps, lawyers.
They are blessing us with their vibrancy & diversity/s
There was a time in our history when you had to know the alphabet and count to 100 before you could go to school..........
All the immigrants then seemed to get this done at home.........
How much blessing can we take?
Till the public somehow wakes up....it’s not going to stop.
” We are the flop-house of the world.”
We’ve always been the flop-house of the world (think “tired, poor, huddled masses”). It’s just a lot easier for people to get here now.
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