DEKALB COUNTY NEW INITIATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT STUDENTS

In a great new initiative from a Georgia county, in the midst of all the anti immigration policies in the state, it is refreshing to see that DeKalb County officials are acting in a better, humane way towards immigrants. They have announced a new initiative aimed at the county's refugee and immigrant students called PHLOTES to the Top project and it will increase accessibility to educational, social and workforce services for K-12 students and their families to increase literacy, graduation, job readiness and home-ownership rates.
DeKalb is one of the state's most diverse school districts and has nearly 17,000 students whose primary home language is not English. The program will be implemented in the fall in the Clarkston school cluster and will be expanded in the future to include additional high school clusters.