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Board adopts policy supporting undocumented students after high schooler’s plea
Summary
After a Cheshire High School student asked the board to act in a case involving a detained classmate, the Board of Education approved Policy 5.111.3 on undocumented students in a roll-call vote; one member, Tim White, voted no, citing legal and funding risks.
A student speaker’s public plea about a detained classmate set the tone Wednesday as the Cheshire Board of Education moved to formally adopt a policy on undocumented students.
Hayden Wang, a Cheshire High School student, told the board he was asking for an official statement about the “deportation of Rehan” and asked why the district had not done more to defend the student’s due-process rights. “I would like to ask why an official statement has not been made yet…and why you have not done more about the situation when his rights and due process have been violated?” Wang said during the public-comment period.
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