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New Educator Guide to Help DREAM Students Apply for Deportation Deferment
An estimated 700,000 undocumented students can now apply for a temporary reprieve from deportation – under President Obama’s executive order, Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA), issued back...
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How Immigration Enforcement is Negatively Affecting Schools
While the number of undocumented immigrants in the country has risen to over 11.1 million people, the stigma associated with having an undocumented status affects a wider range of Americans than...
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NEA Pledges Support for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
By Félix Pérez Sensible, fair and comprehensive immigration reform for millions of students and their families appears to be closer to reality than at any time in recent history. President Barack Obama...
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School Social Worker and Photographer Give Undocumented Students a Voice
All across the United States, undocumented students are forced to suffer in silence because of the constant fear of being deported from the only country that they know. They’re our neighbors, our...
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DREAMer Activist: "I Am Undocumented, Unashamed, and Unafraid"
Carlos Padilla crossed the border between Mexico and the United States on foot when he was only two years old. He was too young to remember the journey, but has heard his mother tell the story of how...
View ArticleVideo: NEA Joins Thousands in Rally for Immigration Reform
Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall on Tuesday to urge Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The March and Rally for Immigrant Dignity and Respect attracted activists...
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NEA Hosts Clinic for Students Eligible for Deferred Action
Ten years ago, Aura Menjivar Lara made the long and harrowing trek from El Salvador to the U.S. She left her homeland—riddled with violence and despair—with dreams of a better life. Today, she wears...
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On 20th Anniversary of Proposition 187, Latino Leaders Promise Mobilization
Twenty years ago next month, California voters approved Proposition 187, the infamous state ballot initiative that was designed to cut off immigrants’ access to social services, including health care...
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Schools Helping Guide Unaccompanied Minors to a Better Life
Nearly 1,500 miles separate Honduras and Texas—a little more than three hours by plane, and 40 hours by car. For 14-year-old Manolo (his name has been changed to protect his identity), the journey took...
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How Undocumented Students Are Turned Away From Public Schools
In the landmark 1982 decision in Plyler v Doe, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled all children are entitled to a public education, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. The fact that this is...
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Isaias’ Story: The Struggles and Dilemmas Facing Children of Immigrants
Isaias Ramos (second from left) walks with classmates to a ceremony honoring the top students at Kingsbury High School in Memphis, TN. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Connolly) In the midst of all the...
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Faculty Urge Sanctuary Campuses For Undocumented Students
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley student Abraham Diaz Alonso, left, talks about his fear of being deported during a news conference asking University President Guy Bailey to make UTRGV into a...
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Children Express Fear of Deportation in Hand-Drawn Comics
The hardline stance on immigration has struck fear and anxiety in students and their families across the U.S. They hear about “the wall” on the news or from other kids. They are told what to do if...
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Fear and Longing: Life for Students with Undocumented Parents
AUSTIN, Texas—”Would you go?” This is the question that silences 16-year-old Jacqui, tightens her wide smile into a thin line, and provokes a low sigh. Her mother sits next to her—motionless—her gaze...
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Revoking DACA ‘Immoral and Un-American,’ Says NEA President
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Upon taking office in January, President Donald Trump pledged to treat with “great heart” the 800,000 young people who are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA)...
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“They Will Have to Come Through Us,” NEA President Tells DREAMers
Axel Herrera Ramos, a 19-year-old sophomore at Duke University, remembers the sound of the rain on the metal roof of his childhood home in Honduras. But that’s about all he remembers. Since age 7, he...
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“All I Want to Do is Teach And Help My Kids,” says DACA Teacher
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) An estimated 20,000 teachers in the U.S. could be deported because of President Trump’s cancellation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA), the federal policy that...
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Who Are the Dreamers? Five Charts That Tell Their Story
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) About 800,000 young people, brought to the U.S. as children, have been been able to go to college and pursue their dreams in the country that they call home, thanks to...
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Despite Rising Fear and Anxiety, DACA Activists Keep Up the Pressure
Washington State University students and community members rally in support of the DREAM Act on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. (Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP) It’s been an emotional...
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10 Challenges Facing Public Education Today
Whether you’re a classroom teacher, school counselor, paraeducator, bus driver, cafeteria worker or school secretary, everyone who works in a public school faces a new school year ready to do the job...
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