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There鈥檚 an innate tension between school safety and students鈥 civil rights. 麻豆精品鈥檚 Mark Keierleber keeps you up to date on the news you need to know

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Even as student enrollment declines drive staggering nationally, one group of students in particular 鈥 children from immigrant households 鈥 have been blamed for straining education budgets. 

Jose Rafael Villegas Pena, 18, receives a new backpack from the Oakland Unified Public Schools enrollment office. (Jo Napolitano) 

Politically aligned media sources are laying the groundwork for President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans. The Fox News station in El Paso, Texas, for example, ran a story this week stating that America鈥檚 public schools have endured a massive financial hit and removing these students would be an 鈥渁ttempt to alleviate the problem.鈥 Its only source: an interview a right-wing pundit from the Leadership Institute gave to the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group.

With the estimated to the U.S. since 2022, according to an October Reuters report, some districts have described budget constraints and challenges in accommodating language barriers and unmet educational needs. 

Trump and his allies, who plan to use the military to carry out massive deportations at the onset of his second term, have made clear their intention to:

  • to citizenship for anyone born in the U.S.
  • case affirming undocumented children鈥檚 right to a free public education. 
  • to carry out raids in classrooms. 

U.S.-born children could become targets, too.

In , Trump floated the possibility of removing immigrants’ American-born relatives during deportations because he doesn鈥檛 鈥渨ant to be breaking up families.鈥 

鈥淭he only way you don鈥檛 break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back,鈥 said Trump, who was widely at the southern border during his first term. 

On the ground: In an in-depth investigation this year, my colleague Jo Napolitano exposed how hundreds of schools across the country illegally denied entry to older immigrant students, expressing 鈥溾媝ervasive hostility and suspicion鈥 toward these new arrivals. In an update this week, Jo explores how the Oakland, California, school district works to welcome 鈥 rather than reject 鈥 its newcomers.

Click here to read Jo鈥檚 latest story.


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As schools nationwide deploy surveillance tools to monitor students online, the youth mental health crisis is being met with late-night home visits from the police and hospitalizations. |

  • 鈥淭he majority of cases that I saw were serious or concerning enough to merit hospitalization, and that in the majority of cases the parents were not aware of the child鈥檚 suicidality,鈥 said Dr. Leticia Ryan, the director of pediatric emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins Children鈥檚 Center.

鈥楥hild executions鈥: Police say the man who carried out a religiously motivated shooting last week at a Christian elementary school that left two kindergarteners wounded wrote that he was acting in response to 鈥淎merica鈥檚 involvements in genocide and oppression of Palestinians.鈥 |

In a new lawsuit against tech company Character.ai, parents accuse its AI chatbot of encouraging their children to commit self harm and murder. |

It鈥檚 a bird 鈥 it鈥檚 a plane 鈥 it鈥檚 a drone spewing pepper spray. Aerial support could soon hover over Texas schools under a bill that seeks to increase state spending on campus security from $10 to $100 per student. |

Andrew Ferguson, tapped by Trump to chair the Federal Trade Commission, promised in a memo to the incoming administration to 鈥渉old big tech accountable,鈥 鈥減rotect freedom of speech and fight wokeness鈥 and 鈥渢he trans agenda.鈥 |

  • Advocates with the nonprofit Fight for the Future said Ferguson鈥檚 statements bolster LGBTQ+ advocates鈥 opposition to the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, legislation designed to prevent childrens鈥 access to social media content deemed harmful. The bill was revived for the umpteenth time in Congress this week. |
  • 鈥淚t is unbelievably insulting that after years of this conversation about KOSA, young queer and trans people are still being gaslit about the harms that this legislation poses to their online communities,鈥 Fight for the Future campaigner Sarah Phillips wrote.  |

More from the FTC: The commission has reached a settlement with school 鈥渨eapons detection鈥 company Evolv Technology after accusing the maker of AI-powered security screens of misstating its ability to identify threats and keep kids safe. | 麻豆精品

A 12-year-old girl was handcuffed for three hours inside her New York City elementary school after law enforcement officials said she hit a school safety officer during a fight with a classmate. |

A 33-year-old Connecticut school resource officer died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after he was arrested and accused of luring a child online. |

  • Related: New Justice Department guidance urges police departments to train campus cops on keeping appropriate boundaries with kids following an investigation into predatory officers who use their positions to groom students. |

The socioeconomics of cybercrime: Children from affluent households 鈥渁re at greater risk of being targeted and compromised by cybercriminals,鈥 according to new Javelin research, because they have greater access to social media and credit cards linked to digital accounts. Yet, 鈥渟ociety鈥檚 most vulnerable children, those in foster care, are ideal candidates for exploitation by cybercriminals.鈥 |

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