Targeted Support Is a Must to Rekindle Latinx College Completion Rates
The coronavirus pandemic disrupted an upward trend of Latinx students enrolling in and graduating from college. Experts are working to create programming that helps ensure Latinx students aren't left behind.
Jessica Fregni
Writer-Editor, One Day
Inequitable Tuition Places College Out of Reach for Some Dreamers
Undocumented students are priced out of college in Arizona and in other states where they are ineligible for in-state tuition.
Jose Patiño
VP of Education and External Affairs at Aliento
The Push to Expand Access to Teacher Certification for DACAmented Educators
Many states are struggling to recruit teachers—while also blocking DACA recipients from leading classrooms.
Home Is a Dream and a Cage—but It Doesn’t Have To Be
Immigrants who are DACA-protected or otherwise undocumented should get to choose what and where “home” is.
Astou Thiane
Assistant Principal of Humanities at Canarsie Ascend Middle School
Undocumented in Color
Atlanta Artist Yehimi Cambrón (Metro Atlanta ’15) brings to life the complexities of the immigrant experience through murals that make this issue, and the people at the heart of this issue, unavoidable.
Paula Ann Solis
With Students’ Futures on the Line, These Teachers are Leading In Unexpected Ways
For immigrant students, it is a time of unease and uncertainty, but these teachers are right where students need them to be – beside them, supporting them.
Teacher, Dreamer, American
I’ll live in fear of arrest if DACA ends. But I’m not a criminal. I am a pre-school teacher.
Eric Kwak
TFA LA Corps Member Sues Trump Over DACA Repeal
A Los Angeles corps member joins a lawsuit over the decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The TFA Editorial Team
On the Border, a DACAmented Science Teacher Fights On
Brought to Texas as a child, Priscilla Aguilar Lumbreras had to be tenacious to get to where she is as a teacher. She's not giving up.
Tim Kennedy