Educators set to march on Washington for DREAMer students
By Félix Pérez, EducationVotesIt has been more than 15 years since he was in her classroom, but choral music teacher Jill Denny still lights up when describing Jose.
“I just think Jose is a fantastic role model for our students. He is the ideal kid. He comes in and says, ‘I’m dying to learn things. Let me learn,’ ” reminisced Denny, who teaches at California’s Mountain View High School.
“It’s my job to take kids where they’re at, make them safe, extend another home for them here and move them forward,” said Denny.
Educators from across the country who believe as Denny does — that students should be made to feel welcome and safe regardless of where they were born — will put their beliefs and advocacy for DREAMer students on full display next month in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol.They will be joined by tens of thousands of students, faith leaders and concerned citizens on April 10. They will seek to seize on and propel the growing national momentum for commonsense immigration reform so that Congress fixes our broken immigration system and the millions of students like Jose are not held back from