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Welcome to Refugee Student Support

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Refugee Student Support (RSS) serves local education agencies (LEAs), community-based organizations, students, and families to ensure that newcomer students have access to educational and wrap-around services. RSS provides guidance as well as direct technical assistance to ensure awareness and consistency among all stakeholders. Through collaborations with LEAs, resettlement agencies, and other community-based organizations, RSS aims to facilitate connections between newcomers and those who support them. 

 

All newcomer students are entitled to a free, accessible, and appropriate public education, regardless of their actual or perceived immigration status.

 

RSS is available to support LEAs with:

  • Enrollment (documentation, coding, etc.)

  • Unique situations

  • Connection with additional educational services, such as:

    • Homeless Education Program

    • Foster Care Education Program

    • Migrant Education Program

    • Office of English Language Acquisition Services

    • Exceptional Student Services

 

Refugee Student Support considers a “newcomer” student to be any immigrant student that has recently arrived in the United States. A newcomer student may be a(n):

  • Refugee Humanitarian Parolee/Entrant

  • Asylum-seeker

  • Asylee

  • Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) eligible individual

 

Newcomer students may also be classified as:

  • an English language learner

  • experiencing homelessness

  • a child in foster care

  • a migratory student

  • unaccompanied

 

 

If you are interested in joining our mailing list to stay up-to-date on Refugee Student Support updates, please sign-up by clicking below!

 

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