This group is helping immigrant parents learn about the school system that their children are in. School is very different where they come from. The school and the children will benefit. - - Donna Poisl
By KIRK SEMPLE
Even as immigrant dropout rates in the city’s public schools have soared, immigrant parents — mystified by the bureaucracies, short on time, cowed by their inability to speak English or fearful that their illegal immigration status would be discovered — have typically stayed away from schools.
On Thursday, the New York Immigration Coalition, an umbrella group of dozens of immigration organizations, announced an ambitious project that it hopes will address both problems. The coalition introduced a city-backed plan to increase involvement by immigrant parents in the city’s public school system.
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