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For two decades, Irma Chavez has lived in legal limbo. An Arkansas businesswoman with four American-born children, she remains a provisional resident of this country and must renew her status every 18 months. Now she’s trusting the Biden administration to make her life more certain and secure. “We really hope everything is going to change in our favor now,” Chavez told the Associated Press. “We are good people. We work. We do our taxes. We pay our taxes.” Immigrants like Chavez contribute every day to the nation’s economy and culture. They’ve earned the peac...

White letters reading “National TPS Alliance On Hunger Strike For #ResidencyNow #TPSJustice” cover bright blue banners and T-shirts, and foldable chairs and tents sprinkle the ground outside Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. — the scene is set for a movement determined to create change. Local immigrants and Harrisonburg residents are heading to Washington, D.C., later this month to take part in a hunger strike in hopes that it’ll lead to immigration reform and protection for immigrant populations.  Crimson Solano came to America from Honduras in 1998 through Temporary P...

Immigration Reform Will Upend the Childcare Industry

Funding Guidelines for May 4, 2021 Deadline RSF will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under these core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Economics; Decision Making & Human Behavior in Context; Future of Work; Social, Political and Economic Inequality. In addition, RSF will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address at least one of the following issues: Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S. Specifically, research that assesses the social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences of the pandemic, esp...

Schoolchildren who are still learning English typically take a federally required test shortly after the winter break that measures their fluency in the language.   This school year is far from typical, of course, and many – if not most – of the country's roughly 5 million public school English learners are receiving instruction at home. ACCESS, an English-proficiency test used by most states that takes up to four hours to complete, can't be done remotely.   Yet many states seem to be proceeding with business as usual, and it's unclear what that means for English learners who ca...