Michigan Education

What does it mean for a school to be immigrant-friendly?

Michigan Public | By Stateside Staff

Published September 21, 2016 at 5:14 PM EDT

"It's really challenging for parents to be able to voice any kind of disagreement with what schools decide their child should be getting," McWilliams told us.

Our conversation with Christine Sauvé. She's the Senior Program Coordinator for Welcoming Michigan.

As Michigan kids get settled into this new school year, there's one group that can use some extra support: children who are immigrants or refugees.

ChristineSauvé works for Welcoming Michigan, the integration initiative at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center.

Lately they’ve been using a new approach to integrating immigrants, focusing their efforts on what U.S.-born Americans think about immigrants coming in. We sat down with Sauvé to learn about some of the newest initiatives, specifically those at play in our schools. (Subscribe to the Stateside podcast oniTunes,Google Play, or with thisRSS link)