Fugees Family

Entrepreneur: Luma Mufleh

Fugees Family launched Teranga, a solution designed to create comprehensive change in English Learner (EL) education for communities with newcomer centers and higher populations of immigrants. Teranga’s three-pillar approach — Redesigning Schools, Retraining Teachers, and Realigning Policy — will lead to systemic changes that advance educational justice for EL students in school districts with newcomer programs across the country. Through a three-year partnership, Teranga will effectively turnaround partner districts’ EL programming with a comprehensive intervention designed to achieve significant gains in student enrollment, retention, test scores, and graduation rates.