Equity & Education & Executive Orders

Federal funding freeze suddenly rescinded. ICE was granted the authority in or near schools. School boards around the country have taken precautions to reassure students, parents and families but the fear and uncertainty remains. 

Massachusetts Attorney general Andrea Campbell has sent a memo to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education saying schools are prohibited from giving, either verbally or in writing, a student's information to third parties -- including ICE agents -- without specific, informed written consent of a parent or guardian, under state and federal laws and regulations.

It leaves the conversation around equity in education wide open. I sat down with Education Civil Rights Attorney Matthew Cregor to talk about it.