President Obama to use executive orders to advance immigration reform
President on the verge of making sweeping changes to immigration system without help from gridlocked Congress.
President on the verge of making sweeping changes to immigration system without help from gridlocked Congress.
Find out how to get in touch with your legislators during the August recess and speak up for immigration reform.
National Board Certified teacher Montserrat Garibay spoke with more than 4,200 educators this week on a telephone town hall about how educators can advocate for the success and safety of DREAMer students and their families.
“These students had no say in the matter about being in this country, and now this is where their home is…All they want is a way to become a citizen.”
“These are children, these are human beings, and they long for what we all want. We as educators do whatever we can do to help out students in class, to continue to be here and to be successful.”
“Aspiring Americans” asks elected officials to find a common-sense approach to immigration that includes a path to citizenship.
Stigma associated with being an undocumented worker threatens the academic success of many students in our schools.
By Mary Ellen Flannery Parents, students and NEA educators cheered the Obama administration’s announcement today that it would stop the deportation of hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers”—those young adults who arrived in this country as children—and instead provide them with work visas. “It’s wonderful news,” said Matilde Vallejos, a student services worker with Maryland’s Montgomery … Continued
On Monday, November 21, the National Education Association, Alabama Education Association and the National School Boards Association filed an amicus brief challenging Alabama’s H.B. 56.
The first-ever hearing on the DREAM Act was held recently and chaired by long-time supporter Sen. Dick Durbin.