Departments of Justice and Education Remind School Districts that all Students, Regardless of Immigration Status, Can Enroll at Public Schools

The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education in a letter dated May 6 reminded educators of their legal responsibility to educate all students, regardless of national origin or immigration status. The letter issued a stern warning to districts that student enrollment practices that may “lead to the exclusion of students based on their or their parents’ or guardians’ actual or perceived immigration status” would “contravene Federal law.”

Kirk Semple of the N.Y. Times reports on the warning from the feds.

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