Local refugee school on front page of New York Times
December 25, 2007 at 8:28 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in NewsA front-page story in today’s New York Times tells the amazing story of the International Community School, a charter elementary school in Dekalb County that specializes in educating refugee children.
More than half the 380 students at this unusual school outside Atlanta are refugees from some 40 countries, many torn by war. The other students come from low-income families in Decatur, and from middle- and upper-middle-class families in the area who want to expose their children to other cultures. Together they form an eclectic community of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims, well-off and poor, of established local families and new arrivals who collectively speak about 50 languages.
Don’t miss the slideshow and video accompanying the story.
(Disclosure: I’m a volunteer tutor at Saturday School, a family literacy program for refugees started by ICS’s founders.)
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December 25th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
‘Fugees!