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L.A.’s schools chief knows what it’s like to be undocumented
A visit by federal agents to two elementary schools drew an angry, impassioned response from the superintendent, Alberto ...
Los Angeles jury awards $48 million to students abused by teacher at South El Monte school
A jury has awarded $48 million to six former students of a South El Monte elementary school who were sexually abused by a ...
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Feds say agents went to LA schools to do welfare check on migrant children
The Department of Homeland Security says its officers visited two Los Angeles public elementary schools this week to do a ...
Senators demand end to federal ‘welfare checks’ in Calif. schools
U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff are demanding answers Friday from the Trump administration about last week’s ...
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LA schools superintendent says he'll protect undocumented students 'to the very end'
DHS said it was conducting wellness checks on students who arrived unaccompanied to the border. The head of the Los Angeles ...
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Los Angeles schools leader explains why he refused to let DHS agents see students
Officers with the Department of Homeland Security recently attempted to enter elementary schools in Los Angeles but were not allowed in. Agents claim to have been conducting a welfare check, not an ...
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What is a ‘wellness check’ and why is Homeland Security doing them at LAUSD schools?
Melkonyan and the other immigrant children’s advocates noted that the officials who went to the two LAUSD schools are part of ...
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Feds say agents went to Los Angeles schools to do welfare check on migrant children
The department's explanation followed harsh criticism by Superintendent Alberto Carvalho of the Los Angeles Unified School District, who said the agents lied to school staff that they had been ...