A hundred new U.S. citizens from 48 countries had their citizenship cemented during Wednesday s naturalization ceremony at the Utah Capitol. The event kickstarted World Refugee Week.
Despite a national increase in the overall graduation rate, the dropout rate for foreign-born refugee and immigrant students remains above 30% three times that of U.S.-born white students, and twice as high as the dropout rate of native-born Latino students, according to the National Education Association. Desange Kuenihira is the founder of UnDEfeated,.