Ratifies up to $60,000 for Refugee & Immigrant Transitions to support newly arrived refugees

Refugee & Immigrant Transitions of San Francisco will teach English classes to up to 90 newly arrived refugee adults, provide home-based tutoring and mentoring for at least 20 refugee students, and supply three community navigators for language help. It will also run after school tutoring and peer interns at Fremont High School and Oakland International High School and interpret for staff in Pashto, Dari and Burmese. The term is October 18, 2021 through June 30, 2022, with a limit of $60,000, and began before this vote.

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Vendor / partner: Refugee & Immigrant Transitions · San Francisco, CA
Action: New agreement
Category: Student health, support & family services
Term: Oct 18, 2021 – Jun 30, 2022
This vote: $60,000
Schools: Fremont High School, Oakland International High School
Funding: CalNEW Grant CDSS; Other Federal
Resource / site: 5810-954, 7816-954
Vendor no.: 003563
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 21-2567 · agenda V.-15
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Nov 17, 2021

Official text

Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2021-2022 by and between the District and Refugee & Immigrant Transitions, San Francisco, CA, for the latter to provide English as a Second Language (ELS) classes for up to 90 newly-arrived refugee adults; home-based tutoring/mentoring for at least 20 high need and at-risk refugee students K-12 as referred by the District’s Refugee and Asylee Program; three Community Navigators - full-time Mam, part-time Mam, one Arabic - to provide language assistance and navigation to refugees speaking minor languages in OUSD and administrative cost thereof; after school tutoring programs and peer interns supporting youth at Fremont High School and Oakland International High School; and interpretation for District staff as needed in Pashto, Dari, and Burmese; to conduct all programming, curriculum design, student recruitment, retention activities, and data collection, via English Language Learner and Multilingual Achievement Department, for the period of October 18, 2021, through June 30, 2022, in an amount not to exceed $60,000.00.

History

Nov 17, 2021 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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