Dear John,
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Plyler v. Doe. The court ruled in 1982 that schools cannot deny public education to any student based on their citizenship status. Despite recent threats to challenge the law, legal protections for immigrant students remain intact.
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Protecting Immigrant Students’ Rights to a Public Education resources offer information and recommendations that educators, caregivers and other trusted adults can use to ensure their school or district is meeting its legal responsibility to linguistically diverse learners and immigrant students and families.
New resources from LFJ, our SPLC legal colleagues and partners include advocacy letters for families with instructions in four languages and a webinar for educators on supporting and affirming immigrant students and their families. Additionally, the resources for families and advocates now include an illustrated story about a mother who faces challenges enrolling her son in school and receiving accommodations to meet his needs. The story is available to read in four languages and features a family who speaks the Mayan language K’iche’.
We hope you’ll use these resources to work for justice in your community.
Jalaya Liles Dunn
Director, Learning for Justice |
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