The Choice Channel

“Alina Guerrero, a fourth-grader at the Amistad Dual Language School in northern Manhattan is among tens of thousands of immigrant children around the country who have been turned into political pawns as a result of the federal No Child Left Behind law. This summer, Department of Education officials in Washington ordered all public schools to give immigrant children who have lived in the U.S. as little as a year the same standardized English Language Arts assessment tests as native-born pupils. Some 25,000 to 50,000 immigrant children will be affected by the new policy in New York State alone - most of them right here in the city.” (09/27/06)