ERIC Number: EJ775807
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Sep-12
Pages: 3
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0277-4232
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With Immigrants, Districts Balance Safety, Legalities
Zehr, Mary Ann
Education Week, v27 n3 p1, 14-15 Sep 2007
In this article, the author discusses attempts by schools to navigate stepped-up federal efforts to curb illegal immigration, protection of student privacy, and the safety of students during enforcement operations. In Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, for example, school personnel are barred from putting information about a child's immigration status in school records or sharing it with outside agencies, including federal immigration authorities. Personnel are also told to deny any request from immigration officials to enter a school to search for information or seize students. School officials--with the help of lawyers--instead would determine whether to grant access. Meanwhile, some small communities with an influx of immigrants are weighing how best to respond if children are left stranded at school because family members have been detained in an immigration raid.
Descriptors: School Role, School Personnel, Safety, Privacy, Immigration, Immigrants, Law Enforcement, Student Rights, Student Records, Compliance (Legal), Public Schools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Mexico
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