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Idaho committee deadlocks on bill to require schools to record students' immigration status
Summary
A House Education Committee vote tied twice and the measure to require schools receiving state funds to record and publish student immigration status did not advance; members raised privacy, cost and constitutional concerns.
Representative Steve Tanner asked the House Education Committee to introduce RS 32,405, a proposed new chapter in state education law that would require any school or district receiving state money to record the immigration status and nationality of enrolled students and to aggregate and make that information public.
Supporters said the data would let policymakers quantify costs and needs associated with student populations that require additional services. "What this is ... is just asking for demographics," Representative Steve Tanner said, explaining the proposal would allow the state to "measure really what is the measure of the new burden that we're trying to meet." Tanner said the categories would align with federal immigration…
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