School leaders used to dealing with shrinking budgets, staff shortages, chronic absenteeism and lackluster test scores are getting consumed by a Donald Trump-driven challenge: ICE raids that are driving students out of the classroom. And it goes well beyond Minneapolis.
Schools across the country are dealing with the impacts of the Trump administration鈥檚 mass deportation operations such as students being detained on the way to and from school or getting caught in the crossfire of tear gas clouds and families going into hiding.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have stopped short of entering school grounds to conduct enforcement activities. But the Trump administration last year reversed a long-standing policy that protected 鈥渟ensitive spaces鈥 like schools from immigration enforcement actions. Teachers unions are fighting to reinstate the previous policy, filing an emergency motion last week, while a coalition of Minnesota districts filed its own suit.
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