Undocumented Students: An Investment in Our Country’s Future

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Author: 
Michael Kay
Periodical: 
New Americans, Volume 5, Issue 1
Year: 
2006
Publisher: 
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Description: 

The U.S. Constitution provides for K-12 public education to all students, regardless of immigration status. An estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high schools each year. Despite earning a high school diploma, their futures are curtailed. This article looks at the personal, social and civic impact of the existing barriers to higher education and employment, the social and civic impacts, the DREAM Act, and how philanthropy is responding.

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