Headstart programs and minority assistance education

I thought it was really interesting in the last class to hear about different people's experiences with elementary and preschool education as coming from different cultural backgrounds and immigrant statuses. My parents and sisters immigrated to the US from Egypt in 1983 and my older sister was enrolled in the Headstart Program after about 3 years. Since my family had to economically start over when they came to the US, Headstart was the only way for my sister to get a pre-elementary school education. My other sister, who was about 5 at the time of immigration, was put into kindergarten with no sort of ESL program catered to Arabic-speaking students. This transition to learning English must have been alienating for my sister, and her experience makes me wonder how Latino students in low-resource schools grapple with the same sorts of obstacles when having no hopes for access to a bilingual education.