Abstract
Although immigrant and refugee youth are entering higher education at increasing rates, they complete high school and college at dramatically lower rates than their native-born counterparts. Literature in the K-12 educational sector examines a host of challenges that immigrant and refugee children encounter in US schools which further contributes to the ever present educational gap between them and their peers. In this article, the authors examine challenges immigrant and refugee families encounter and the navigational strategies they employ in their pursuit to access quality education for their children. The authors draw upon funds of knowledge (FoK) and transformational resistance as guiding frameworks to critically unpack how these navigational strategies are leveraged by families to counter oppressive schooling structures, functioning as strategic resistance. School choice, strategic relationship building, and advocacy are only a few of the diverse ways families mobilize their FoK to subvert inequitable educational systems.