Sentences with phrase «immigrant children get»

Today Union City is a far cry from «exemplifying the worst education immigrant children get,» Kirp said.

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Even though Pioneer is considered a «high - needs school» and enrolls a large number of English language learners and children of immigrants, every student gets a chance to learn in Jones» high - tech classroom.

We can't call ourselves Catholic, and then simply stand by while immigrants get mistreated, or the poor get robbed, or unborn children get killed.

«We've been setting our sights on how to get to the second generation buyer, children of immigrants who over the past couple of years have been going to retailers such as Safeway, Kroger's and Whole Foods.

Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said earlier Monday that «it's not looking good» for getting the DREAM Act, which would provide college tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants, and the tax credit, which would incentivize donations to groups that boost public and private education, in the final budget.

The GOP has blocked passage of bills including the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get college aid, a measure to codify the abortion rights in Roe v. Wade into state law, and campaign finance reform.

It is also one of the major reasons why immigrants are deported, how families get torn apart by child welfare services, and why former convicts get trapped in the parole system, he added.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump said he would «cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities,» roll back President Barack Obama's executive actions shielding undocumented foreign nationals who arrived as children, deport what he claims are «more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country» and get eliminate of visas to foreign countries that will not take them back.

But while Cuomo was able to get several Republican Senators to vote to enact same sex marriage in 2011, he could not get them to budge on several issues that the Democratic left was pushing for, including, further increasing the minimum wage, allowing children of undocumented immigrants college aid known as the Dream Act, and public financing of political campaigns.

As a child of immigrants, who worked hard, got a good education and became a successful businessman and -LSB-...]

Brake referred to the BBC's recent drive to get children interested in classical music, using 10 pieces of music and dressing them up with film clips and different instruments, and suggested that something similar could be done to change the caricature of immigrants.

The GOP has blocked passage of bills including the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get college aid, a measure to codify the abortion rights in Roe v. Wade into state law, as well as campaign finance reform.

The DREAM Act to help the children of immigrants get an education failed to make the final budget cut.

Five years ago, U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order that allowed young, unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the country as children to work, go to school, and get a driver's license without fear of deportation.

A growing chorus of people are saying that some school districts are overzealous in categorizing students as English - language learners in the aim of complying with federal and state laws to ensure that children of immigrants get extra help with English.

We believe that the market based reformers are practicing a kind of crude social Darwinism — treating education as a commodity to be bought and sold, creating a hierarchy of winners (the elite who get a rich curriculum of questioning) and losers (the oppressed classes, the Black and Brown and immigrant and low - income children who need to be taught passivity and compliance).

Although it is difficult to get an accurate picture of the immigrant population in the United States, researchers estimate that 1.8 million undocumented children and youth are now living in the country.

You have dismissed the realization that a majority of immigrants and first - generation low socioeconomic Spanish - speaking parents WANT that for their children, not Spanish - first «Bilingual Education» gradually transitioning tto English without ever getting there all the way to my university, Cal State LA.

Poverty, illness, immigrants from other countries who do not speak English, hungry children and parents» their own failure to get an education are huge barriers.

Weather you're a child attending a new school or you're an immigrant getting use to your new surroundings, everyone has felt that unease of trying to mix in so you don't feel isolated.»