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Union and community leaders urge district to empower school-based response plans for immigrant communities
Summary
Representatives from the Madison Teachers, Inc. and community organizers told the board the district should enable school-based plans to protect students and staff facing immigration enforcement, saying top-down caution has sometimes discouraged needed support.
Representatives from Madison Teachers, Inc. and other community organizers told the Madison board on April 28 that the district should enable school-level planning to protect immigrant students and staff from immigration-enforcement actions and to support organizing and safe responses in schools.
"I think this district has a lot of policies on paper to support immigrant communities but I think we've taken a very cautious approach," said a union…
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