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Parents and residents clash over ESL, ICE concerns during Dover Area SD public comment
Summary
A public commenter said board questioning about English‑learners alarmed her and urged a policy to keep ICE out of schools; another resident defended the board's line of questioning as reasonable, highlighting a split in public sentiment during the meeting's public‑comment period.
During the first public‑comment period, speakers raised sharply different views after board members asked about English‑learner staffing and its budgetary effects.
Dia Caldwell told the board the line of questioning about English as a second language "has become frightening" and urged the district to adopt a policy to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) out of schools.…
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