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Immigrant & Refugee Resources for Families, Students and Educators Buffalo Public School's diversity is a source of strength and a point of pride.  Our students come from all parts of the world. With over 77 countries represented and 83 different languages spoken, Buffalo Public Schools is the most linguistically diverse district in New York State.   

Our District provides the benefit of free public education to all persons who meet NYS's age and residency requirements, regardless of immigration or citizenship status.

As a public school district, it is our responsibility to ensure that our schools are safe spaces where all children are supported academically, socially, and emotionally. 

In an effort to reaffirm support for refugee and immigrant families and embrace students of all cultural backgrounds, the Buffalo Public Schools Division of Multilingual Education and the City of Buffalo’s Office of New Americans has developed this website in hopes to provide a wealth of resources and educational tools to support immigrant students and their families. 

Included as links or points of information on the website are:

Community Resources

Office of New Americans

The City of Buffalo’s Office of New Americans

The Office of New Americans aims to ensure that Buffalo remains a welcoming city and a preferred resettlement site in the U.S.  The Office works to create economic & academic opportunities within the City’s incumbent population and in its growing immigrant and refugee communities.  It’s mission is to promote access to City services, area resources and to implement policies that facilitate successful integration of newcomers into the civic, economic, and cultural life of Buffalo.

 

City of Buffalo Services

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Fire-dept

Languages of NYS

The Languages of New York State: A CUNY-NYSIEB Guide for Educators

Raising Children: An Australian Parenting Website
This website provides parenting videos in a variety of languages.  

Immigration & Refugee Resources for Educators

Translanguaging Guide
This guide was developed by CUNY-NYSIEB, a collaborative project of the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) and the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and funded by the New York State Education Department. The guide was written under the direction of CUNY-NYSIEB's Project Director, Nelson Flores, and the Principal Investigators of the project: Ricardo Otheguy, Ofelia García and Kate Menken. For more information about CUNY-NYSIEB, visit www.cuny-nysieb.org. Published in 2011 by CUNY-NYSIEB, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10016. www.nysieb@gmail.com.