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Hundreds of speakers urge HISD to protect immigrant students, defend student protests
Summary
Dozens of elected officials, parents and students pressed the Houston ISD board to publicly reassure immigrant families, limit discipline for peaceful student protests and revise inconsistent protest policies after a wave of walkouts and reports of ICE activity.
Dozens of elected officials, students and parents urged the Houston Independent School District board on Feb. 12 to publicly affirm that school campuses are safe for immigrant students and to stop harsh punishments for student protests.
Gloria Marino, representing Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, told the board “schools have to be safe for every child” and urged a single, consistent district policy on student protest. State Rep. Christina Morales said students are organizing because they feel unsafe and unheard: “Our students are organizing because they feel unheard, because they feel unsafe,” she said. Several students and organizers invoked…
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