Immigration Resources

Our goal is to maintain normal classroom routines and adhere to academic plans. We encourage parents/guardians to have conversations with their children as they believe appropriate.  When having a conversation with your children, please remind them of our zero-tolerance position regarding harmful language. Here are publicly available resources that may help you have conversations with your student:

How to talk to children about difficult news

Talking to Children About Tragedies & Other News Events

Traumatic Separation and Refugee and Immigrant Children: Tips for Current Caregivers 

Edina Public Schools is supported by cultural liaisons who work alongside families to navigate the education system, communicate in home languages, and access helpful resources and services. Our cultural liaisons serve Spanish-speaking, Somali, and Southeast Asian communities.

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The Edina Resource Center is available to connect you with services in our community, including food, housing, transportation, healthcare, financial support, and more.

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Do you have concerns about your child's behavior? Family Response can help, with immediate, in-person support and stabilization for youth and their parents/caregivers.

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The Hornet Cares Fund provides direct support to Edina Public Schools' families and staff facing temporary hardship, helping ensure stability, dignity, and continued access to school and community resources.

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The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM) is a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota.

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The Edina Public Schools Multilingual Learners program supports language acquisition and cultural adjustment for multilingual learners.

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The Volunteer Lawyers Network (VLN) helps Minnesotans experiencing poverty with civil legal issues by connecting clients with volunteer attorneys.

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The Immigrant Legal Resource Center developed the Family Preparedness Plan to help families prepare for the unexpected, with guidance tailored to the unique challenges faced by immigrant and mixed-status families.

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A Delegation of Parental Authority (DOPA) is a document that lets someone take care of your children when you can’t.

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Edina Public Schools uses the contact information and communication preferences in your Parent Portal to share important updates about our schools. To make sure we can reach you in an emergency, please keep your contact information current.

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No. The Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution states: “No State shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” In Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause bars the government from denying a free public education to students who were not “legally admitted” to the United States. As a result, public schools must treat immigrant students and non-immigrant students equally.

The Supreme Court explained that holding undocumented immigrant children accountable for their parents’ actions “does not comport with fundamental conceptions of justice.” Plyer, 457 at 220. Additionally, denying innocent children access to a public education “imposes a lifetime hardship on a discrete class of children not accountable for their disabling status. By denying these children a basic education, we deny them the ability to live within the structure of our civic institutions and foreclose any realistic possibility that they will contribute in even the smallest way to the progress of our Nation.” Id. at 223.

School districts should not take actions that could reasonably be perceived as discouraging undocumented immigrants from attending school. For example, school districts should not ask about a family’s immigration status during the enrollment process and should not maintain records about a family’s immigration status.