Immigration
Teachers say they are rethinking lesson plans and routines after immigration arrests and deportation orders rose over the summer in the state.
Around 20,000 unaccompanied minors nationwide are set to lose legal services when the federal government ends a contract Friday. One NYC immigration court shows us what that will look like.
The policy chips away at a 1982 Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a free K-12 education for immigrant students.
The Chicago congressman wants to improve mental health support for immigrant children after several federal rollbacks from the Trump administration.
‘I think teachers really feel helpless,’ a Newark educator said as immigration protests at Delaney Hall have escalated.
Yasser Jose Lopez Soza, a junior at Memphis Business Academy, has been in immigration detention for over two months. He was arrested in February on his way to a school soccer game.
“Immigrant students, and students who are related to immigrants, are scared and not coming to school,” a student told the school board.
The proposals would put New York in a small group of states that have enshrined the rights guaranteed in the Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe.
An estimated 5 million American students need help learning English at school. The Office of English Language Acquisition helped states and school districts serve those students.
A slim majority of Tennessee House Republicans approved a plan to expand the state’s voucher program to 35,000 seats next year which might also require public schools to begin collecting student Social Security numbers.
The jubilation of Dylan’s return has been mixed with frequent reminders of the looming threat of immigration enforcement facing him and other ELLIS students.
House and Senate Republicans are hesitant to compromise on a controversial measure to impose public school requirements on undocumented and immigrant students.
Chalkbeat found most Virginia school districts signed pledges to exclude undocumented students from federally funded career programs. It was just one example of states chipping away at Plyler protections for immigrant students.
The Tennessee Senate and House now have conflicting versions of the bill complicating public education access to undocumented students in the state.
The 18-year-old’s lawyer says his case is a “perfect storm” caused by increased immigration enforcement through the Memphis Safe Task Force and Trump-era federal policy changes.
A school board policy would be more prominent and harder to change than the superintendent policies that already exist. But a board member worried about giving families false comfort.
Tennessee Republicans are moving forward with efforts to track the immigration status of K-12 students. But an effort to charge undocumented students tuition for public schools appears dead for the year.
Meanwhile, the Denver school board is debating its own policy that would similarly bar ICE agents from school property without a warrant.
A lawsuit from Attorney General Todd Rokita alleges the district unlawfully impeded federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Raiza Contreras, mother of the first NYC public school student detained by ICE, will attend the SOTU as Chuck Schumer’s guest to protest immigration enforcement.