dvocates for Children of New York (AFC) and Asian American LegalDefense and Education Fund (AALDEF) are grateful for the generoussupport to write this report provided by the Donors’ Education Collaborative, theDurst Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation.We would like to thank the many students, parents, school staff, communityorganizations and researchers who kindly gave their time and shared their stories,experiences and data with us. We would like to thank staff at Flanbwayan HaitianLiteracy Project, the Haitian American Bilingual Education Technical AssistanceCenter, and the United Chinese Association of Brooklyn for sharing information aboutthe schools we studied and for connecting us with parents and students.We would like to extend our appreciation to Jennifer L. Jennings and AaronM. Pallas for sharing their research and data with us. We would also like to thank themany school staff who spoke with us about enrollment and programs in their schools.These individuals were promised confidentiality and thus are not acknowledged byname.Finally, AFC would like to thank Wes Howe, Alejandra Lopez, Luis Moralesand Upasana Unni, and our current and former AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteers, NilaSengupta and Sara Ciner Schodt for their contributions to this report. In addition,AALDEF would like to thank Nithya Nathan and Linda Hahn for their invaluableassistance with this project.AALDEF’s Educational Equityand Youth Rights ProjectKhin Mai Aung, Staff AttorneyBrian Redondo, Program AssociateAFC’s Immigrant Students’Rights ProjectGisela Alvarez, DirectorArlen Benjamin-Gomez, Staff Attorney
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