Diploma, Please: Promoting Educational Attainment for DACA- and Potential DREAM Act-Eligible Youth
A new report from the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Diploma, Please: Promoting Educational Attainment for DACA- and Potential DREAM Act-Eligible Youth, examines the impact of DACA and potential future DREAM Act-like education attainment provisions on unauthorized immigrant youth. The report provides a sociodemographic snapshot of the population and adult education system capacity, and explores the education-success challenges for three key DACA subgroups: individuals under age 19, those 19 or older without a high school diploma or GED, and those 19 and older with a high school diploma or GED as a terminal degree. It concludes with recommendations for actions that policymakers; leaders in the secondary, postsecondary, adult education, and workforce training fields; and other stakeholders can take to support educational attainment by these youth.
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