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Trump鈥檚 back 鈥� and so, too, is the president-elect鈥檚 influence on policies that affect the safety and well-being of America鈥檚 students.

From gun-toting math teachers to federal rules that decide which bathroom a kid can use, the student safety and civil rights issues that are central to the School (in)Security newsletter could be in for some major changes. 

Here are 11:

• The return of an architect of the family separation immigration policy during the first Trump administration. | 
  
• An effort to end the constitutional right of citizenship for children born in the U.S. regardless of their parents鈥� immigration or citizenship status. | 
  
• A rollback of civil rights and anti-discrimination protections for transgender students. | 
  
• A shakeup at the federal government鈥檚 primary cybersecurity agency, which has taken a leading role in school cyberattack prevention. | 
  
• Efforts to unwind bipartisan firearm restrictions approved in 2022 following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. | 
  
• Policies that address school violence through a renewed focus on suspensions and 鈥渉ardening schools鈥� with measures like campus-based police and metal detectors. |  
  
• Efforts to strengthen protections for students accused of sexual misconduct. | 
  
• A promise to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education 鈥� and the potential return of policies enacted during the first Trump administration that scaled back investigations into discrimination based on students鈥� race, sex or religion. | 
  
• A vice president who said school shootings 鈥� which have surged exponentially in the last decade 鈥� are a 鈥渇act of life鈥� and that schools are 鈥渟oft targets鈥� if you are a 鈥減sycho and you want to make headlines.鈥� | 
  
• Efforts to reform anti-discrimination rules to remove 鈥渄isparate impact鈥� liability, including for racial disparities in school discipline. | 
  
• Efforts to eliminate federal funds for schools that recognize students鈥� transgender identities and grant equal access to bathrooms and locker rooms. | 

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In the news

To school shooting survivor David Hogg, Democrats鈥� failure to motivate voters rests on the shoulders of one constituency above all: Boomers. I recently profiled , a well-financed political action committee designed to elevate Gen Z and millennial progressives. Here鈥檚 how they fared on Nov. 5. | 

Notorious swatter confesses: An 18-year-old from California has pleaded guilty to making 375 swatting calls throughout the U.S., including false police reports of school shootings and bombings. | 

Federal authorities indicted two suspected cybercriminals accused of breaking into a cloud computing platform and exposing the data of major corporations and the Los Angeles school district. | 

A federal judge has temporarily halted a new Louisiana law that would require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. | 

A drop in the bucket: The Federal Communications Commission said demand for a $200 million school cybersecurity pilot program far exceeded its capacity, with 2,734 applications requesting a total of $3.7 billion. | 

The Providence, Rhode Island, school district acknowledged in a letter to families that a recent cyberattack compromised sensitive student information 鈥� but only after I published  into the extent of the breach. | 

鈥楢 culture of bullying:鈥� Federal authorities have opened a civil rights investigation into a New Jersey school district where school resource officers are accused of failing to protect an 11-year-old student from harassment before she died by suicide last year. | 

The 28-year-old athletics director of a New York school district has been arrested in an extortion case, accused of demanding that a 17-year-old student send him sexual photos over Snapchat under a threat of exposing personal information about the minor. 

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