Student ICE protests target educators and schools

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. Republican leaders across the country are trying to limit the role teachers play in activism as part of a backlash against students protesting immigration enforcement. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday announced an investigation into three school districts for “facilitating and failing to keep students safe and accountable during various student protests.” They include Dallas Independent School District, the second-largest in the state. Paxton’s office launched an investigation into Austin’s school district for similar reasons, requesting documents from the district earlier this month. In response to a wave of teacher sick-outs in Tucson, Arizona, that were part of a national immigration protest, GOP lawmakers introduced a bill that would ban teachers from engaging in any kind of organized work stoppage. And in Oklahoma, a group of Republican lawmakers asked the state sch