ICE operations around Minneapolis have driven sharp student absences and pushed some districts to offer online learning. Teachers and parents say fear is disrupting classrooms and children’s sense of safety.

Roberts, named Des Moines superintendent in 2023, was born to immigrant parents from Guyana and raised in Brooklyn.

The department has already paid more than $21 million to idle employees over the last three months, according to the American Federation of Government Employees. They were terminated in March when the agency cut nearly half of its workforce.

Education and immigration advocates questioned whether the proposal was constitutional and said they believed it will make immigrant families feel afraid and unwelcome at public schools.

Private schools face funding challenges for security measures and often rely on self-funding or grants. Experts advocate for cost-effective protocols like staff training,  emergency preparedness and hiring a chief resource officer.

Kraft Heinz, the company that produces Lunchables, announced that it will remove the meal kits from the National School Lunch Program. The company pulled the product because demand did not reach its targets, but it plans to revisit the idea in the future, according to an emailed statement from Kraft Heinz.

A group of Oklahoma parents of public school students, teachers and ministers filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the state’s top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students in grades 5 through 12.

Some 72% of public high school teachers in the United States say that cell phone distraction among their students is a major problem, according to a study published by the Pew Research Center. Mary Frances Ruskell, a senior at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School in Columbia, South Carolina, shares her thoughts on classroom phone bans.