More than half a million school-age migrant children have arrived in the U.S. since 2022, according to immigration court records collected by Syracuse University, exacerbating overcrowding in some classrooms; compounding teacher and budget shortfalls; forcing teachers to grapple with language barriers and inflaming social tensions in places unaccustomed to educating immigrant students.

As expectations within STEM fields evolve in our technology and data-driven society, the traditional Algebra 2 course may not provide students headed to calculus with the problem-solving capability they will need in the future.

The partnership between the National Alliance of Black School Educators and the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents advocates for policies that benefit all students and leverages our collective knowledge to drive meaningful reform.