Immigrant and Refugee Children in the United States: Challenges for Teachers and School Administrators

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Author(s): Pamela Lemoine (Troy University, USA)and Michael D. Richardson (Columbus State University, USA)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 28
Source title: Overcoming Current Challenges in the P-12 Teaching Profession
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Penelope D. Keough (National University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1177-0.ch005

Keywords: Business & Management / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education / Professional Development

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Since 2014 America has seen increasingly large numbers of poor, immigrant refugee children, often unaccompanied, arrive in the United States. By 2016, 26% of the 70 million children in the U.S. under 18 were immigrant children. States with high numbers of immigrants with children, many illegal and undocumented and often living in the care of non-family members, attend schools in the United States. In 1982, the Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe recognized the right of all students, regardless of immigration status, to have a free public education affirming a state may not deny access to a basic public education to any child residing in the state whether present in the United States legally or otherwise. Educators face issues with under-resourced schools gaining increasing numbers of immigrant children of undocumented immigrants while there is a need to enhance opportunities for all students to learn.

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