Refugee Students and Parents as Drivers of Change in San Diego Schools
The PSRO’s Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10855819 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anita Casavantes Bradford (0000-0001-9104-4575, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author), Yen Le Espiritu (University of California San Diego), Adriana Echeverria (University of California San Diego) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0859 • E-ISSN: 1552-8340 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00420859261417306 |
| OpenAlex | W7127526905 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 63 |
This article presents a case study of the Parent Student Resident Organization (PSRO), a diverse coalition of refugee students and parents in San Diego's City Heights neighborhood, and its role in advancing educational equity in San Diego Unified School District. In analyzing how the PSRO's intergenerational, feminist and cultural humility inspired organizing model empowered diverse refugee families to leverage California's Local Control Funding Formula to demand change, it retheorizes refugee students and parents as knowledgeable and competent educational advocates and suggests promising practices for teachers, school leaders, and community organizers committed to supporting refugee students and improving urban schools
Cultural competence · Cultural humility · Educational Equity · Equity (law) · Leverage (statistics) · Multicultural education · Multiculturalism · Photovoice · Refugee · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Migration, Health and Trauma · Parental Involvement in Education
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(Re)Defining Urban Education
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Social and Curricular Inclusion in Refugee Education
Latina/o Parent Organizing for Educational Justice
Language Brokering in Linguistic Minority Communities
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |