cross posted from KUOW When Zuheera Ali walks into a coffee shop, she stands outside the door, opens her wallet, takes out her card, figures out exactly what she wants to order, and she reminds herself: ‘You’re Billy. You’re Billy.’ The barista doesn’t believe her, of course. But they can’t do anything about it. As…
Cross posted from the Best Starts for Kids blog. As a nation, we have confronted head-on a tragedy that transcends politics: our federal government’s decision to separate more than 2,000 children, including babies, from their parents at our southern border. Weeks after implementing this inhumane policy, the President signed an executive order today stating that…
Crossposted from Crosscut. By Stephen Hegg Joshua Villanueva arrived in Seattle from the Philippines three years ago. He was 16, an age when most youth in the United States are fully immersed in high school. In the Philippines, Joshua’s future was in danger. “Guns… drugs… violence,” he recounts. “I was in a gang.” The…
Crossposted from the Superintendent’s Blog. Dear Seattle Public Schools Families, On Sept. 5, 2017, President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to phase out and eventually end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program over the next two and half years. DACA has protected…
In the aftermath of federal decisions, Seattle and King County are stepping up and stepping out on the issue of immigrant rights. In a vote Wednesday, February 15, 2017, the Seattle School Board unanimously approved a decision to declare the District a “sanctuary district.” Seattle Public Schools staff will never ask for a student’s immigration…
