By Hannah Kingsley-Ma, KALW/Crosscurrents
In a sun-filled classroom at an Oakland high school, a room full of adults are learning English.
Everyone here is a refugee, asylum seeker or recent immigrant who has resettled in the East Bay, and each has sought out this free English language class offered by the nonprofit Refugee Transitions. Parents and relatives of kids in the Oakland Unified School District can sign up first.
These adult students hail from countries like Burma, Peru, Yemen and China. Some have college degrees, some never went to school, but they’re all eager to learn, in part to be better equipped to participate in their children’s education.
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