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The Oklahoma State Board of Education is ready to vote on the proposal on Tuesday that parents will need to report their immigration or citizenship when they enroll their children in school.
The school board says the proposal aims to better understand the needs of its students. However, supporters of education and immigration say they believe the proposal will make the families of immigrants frightened and unwanted in public schools that need to be legally provided to every children.
“All children have the right to access equal access to education, regardless of their citizenship or immigration.” The National Immigration Law Center objected in a statement To change the rule. “The need to collect information about the Immigration status for the school districts is to have a cold access to the opportunity, and interfere with their ability to focus on their basic mission: children All students need to educate and provide all students’ ability to develop, develop development and participate fully in our democracy. ”
The Board of Education is expected to vote on it and others Rule Tips Tuesday 9:30 pm CT. If approval is granted, the rules proceed to review the legislature and the governor, State Administrative Rules.
Board proposal appears as President Donald Trump and Republican status Leaders have promised to break non -documentary immigrants and plan a massive deportation. Last week, Trump signed a series of executive orders to increase the strength of immigration authorities and issued a directive that allowed immigration and customs enforcement agents to arrest people in schools, which a long -term policy Holiday.
Oklahoma is also at the forefront of a Republican pressure to change public education under the Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters. Last year, the Board of Education needed all schools to include the Bible and ten orders in their curriculum. And a few days ago, the US Supreme Court agreed to decide whether states could reject religious charter schools from receiving public funds in a case outside Oklahoma.
Immigration has been a special focus for Walters. Earlier this month, Walters announced a $ 474 million trial Leaders of the Homeland Security and the ICE Department have been “sought for strict financial and operational tensions, which their failed border policies have placed in Oklahoma public schools.”
Walters said last week that Oklahoma plans to comply with the Trump administration’s efforts to allow ICE agents to go to school. He issued a statement on Monday explaining the position further.
“Schools are disabled with the floods of illegal immigrants and the Biden/Harris Open border policy. Oklahoman and Malik have chosen President Trump and we will do everything possible to help keep Oklahoma students first.
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Take a deep look at the proposal and the law
Changes in the proposed rule- Technically 210: 10-1-5 (D) – A child’s parents or legal guardians will need to provide proof of US citizenship or legal immigration status at the time of registration.
According to the proposed principle, each school district will record the number of students whose parents or guardians cannot provide evidence, and then without any personally identified information, “information about the total number of students only “Will present, according to the proposed principle, to the State Department of Education.
According to the text, the change in the rule is to evaluate the local and local educational needs across the state, including without any limits, students ‘needs, language and cultural obstacles, current and future needs for English (‘ ESL ‘) As teachers, tutoring and tuitioning programs, current and future transportation requirements, programs and future funds.
The text of this principle states that, “Nothing will be understood to forbid or prevent any child from studying in this section,” and he says of any data Use will not be used to record individual student citizenship or immigration. Prestige
In a statement last week, Walters Appreciated the change of this proposed rule And others, saying that they will protect the students of Oklahoma. Teachers will need to pass a written test for changes in other principles Based on the American Naturalization Test And schools needed Fly the American flag.
“Our rules not only serve the Oklahoma taxpayers, but will also help ensure that the students are instructed by the most needed,” he said. “Due to the years of long failure on the border of the Biden administration, the hard -working Oklahomans deserve how they are spending how they are spending to comply with the federal government’s undeniable mandate.”
Immigration and education supporters have questioned its legal status and argued that this principle will discourage students from going to school. According to, parents and some lawyers attended the recent public hearing of the Department of Education to address their concerns. Kjrh associated with CNN.
“Education should never be a weapon as an exclusion or fear device,” Tasneem Elishel, who is the recipient and his representative of the program in the Defade Action for childhood. Oklahoma Center for Community and JusticeSaid at the hearing.
“Such policies are in danger of doing classroom politics and they create an environment where families feel unwanted in enrolling their children in school.”
The current US law on immigrants in schools is from the Supreme Court case of 1982 Puller vs DowWhich has stated in 5-4 votes that states cannot deny the constitutional free public education because of the status of immigration to students, citing the equivalent protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
The decision states, “By denying these children basic education, we refuse them to stay in the structure of our urban institutions, and predict any realistic possibilities that they are ours. Will also contribute to the nation’s progress.
Recently, in 2011, Alabama’s legislature passed a tremendous law for crackdown on an illegal immigration, including measuring Oklahoma -like measurement, including public school administrators. Need to collect information about status. Several groups of justice and civil rights challenged parts of the law, a federal judge agreed to stop some of his controversial parts, and Albama finally agreed to a settlement, according to him. American Immigration Council.
With the potential changes for immigrant students in Oklahoma, the largest school districts in the state have tried to assure students and families. Jamie City, Superintendent of Oklahoma City Public Schools Issued a statement Last month, saying that he had no plans to collect immigration status.
“The federal law guarantees the right to every child, regardless of immigration, and our district will continue to work according to the federal reservations set up. Polk said, there are no OKCPs, nor ours. The pass is intended to submit the immigration status of our students or their families.
