This chapter from GCIR's Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration explores the challenges of meeting newcomers' educational needs and identifies successful strategies and programs to address them.
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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