(28 Nov 2019) At so-called newcomer schools, children from around the world are learning English skills and American classroom customs they need to succeed.
In Phoenix, students from Myanmar, Eritrea, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Cuba and other countries have attended Valencia Newcomer School since autumn 2018. They get an extra year of attention before transferring to mainstream schools.
This year's kindergarten through eighth-grade students come from 21 countries and speak 15 languages.
Valencia is among a handful of US public schools dedicated to helping some of the thousands of young newcomers who arrive in the country annually.
It comes as the Trump administration has proposed pushing down the annual cap for refugees to a historic low of 18,000.
No refugees were settled in the US last month.
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