According to reports from Reuters and the Associated Press, Denver Public Schools in Colorado have become the first in the country to open doors to undocumented teachers who came to the United States when they were children. 

The schools are hiring under the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) directive which allows undocumented workers to apply for a renewable work permit. 

Superintendent Tom Boasberg said that the move would help to bring multi-lingual instructors with a, "deep personal understanding of the challenges that many of our students face," to the classroom, in attempts to connect with the districts' Latino students who account for more than half of the student body. About one in three students are English-language learners and a majority speak Spanish. 

The district has partnered with Teach for America to recruit recent college graduates who do not necessarily have a background in education, and are only required to teach in a school for two years. 

One of the two recent recruits includes a University of Pennsylvania graduate, Kareli Lizarraga, who came to the United States when she was 4 years old and grew up in California and Arizona, who could not pursue Teach for America her junior year of college because DACA had not been instituted, and the application required a social security number.