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OUR MISSION: to provide quality education for recently arrived immigrants by growing and sustaining a strong national network of innovative International High Schools, while broadening our impact by sharing proven best practices and influencing policy for English learners on a national scale.

OUR VISION: to ensure all recent immigrant students have access to a quality high school education that prepares them for college, career and full participation in democratic society, thereby opening doors to the American Dream.

RECENT NEWS:

We would like to invite you to the International High School at Lafayette’s 4th annual Café Night, Thursday, May 24th. This year, the school's Explorer’s Club (SIFE) students - Student with Interrupted Formal Education – will share their self-published books about “Growing Experiences” in the International High School at Lafayette Library (2630 Benson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) from 5:00-6:30. They will then bring their families and guests to their Victory Garden at the Dag Hammarskjold Elementary School (PS 254) at 1801 Avenue Y, Brooklyn, NY for a special “Flowers of Thanks” ceremony from 7:00-8:00.

International High School at Prospect Heights’ student Aisha Azam won a very prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship. She is the 4th student from International High School @PH in the last 5 years to win a Gates Millennium Scholarship.

The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Program, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, provides outstanding students from underserved communities with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education in a discipline of their choice.

International High School at Union Square’s new website went live yesterday. Designed by the firm Arkadium through the PENCIL Partnership Program (the program connects private sector leaders and principals, allowing schools to benefit from the unique expertise and resources of the business community). Arkadium is a leading designer of online casual games, social games on Facebook, and mobile games. Check out IHS@Union Square’s new website by clicking on the link below! http://www.ihs-us.org/

I-START application deadline has been extented to MARCH 12, 2012!

An 11th grade student from The Brooklyn International High School student participated on a panel Monday March 26, called "Dream Acts: The Role of Theatre in Social Change". The panel was presented by Re/Union Company and Immigrant Artists and Scholars in New York. The other panelists included two undocumented CUNY students and Dream Act activists, the DREAM Fellowship Coordinator at the New York Immigration Coalition, actor Carlo Alban, the Artistic Director of the Immigrant Theater Project and CUNY professor Marcy Arlin, and the associate producer of "Under the Radar" Festival Meiyin Wang. It was moderated by the playwright and NYU drama professor Savianna Stanescu.
More information about the event is available at http://dreamactunion.org

Three of our students had the opportunity to go bowling with First Lady Michelle Obama!  Farah Michele, Jenniffer Vasquez, and Alex Zhong met the First Lady on Monday, March 19th.  This was an amazing opportunity made possible by iMentor.  Please check our Facebook page to see the photos! 



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