Posted on 09/03/2010 9:53:43 PM PDT by DBeers
ALBANY -- The state Education Department this week issued guidelines to school districts on avoiding questions that could disclose a student's immigration status.
That means inquiring about citizenship status, Social Security numbers and similar information are out of bounds when a student enrolls for school.
The guidelines issued Monday were a response to a New York Civil Liberties Union study that found 139 of the state's 694 districts intentionally or unintentionally asked about citizenship status. Fourteen Capital Region districts were cited in the NYCLU study.
Jonathan Burman, a department spokesman, said Tuesday the guidelines will help districts make sure their policies comply fully with the law.
The student registration guidance memo says that districts should not ask about a child's immigration status as it "might chill or discourage undocumented students from receiving a free public education."
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(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com ...
When will there be guidance to not ask if someone has guns, or, if the fact they have guns is undeniable, to not ask whether the guns are “documented” or not?
So only 139 of the 694 districts were acting in a sane and rational way.
Old news for California
It would appear so...
This is another case of ACLU intimidation answered with spineless bureaucrat surrender... The bureaucrats have no skin in the game and are all too willing to cede the ethical and moral authority of those they supposedly represent -the people as well as open the peoples pocket book to fund leftist ideology ...
I do not know there is a simple answer to counter this long ongoing progressive onslaught upon individual freedom premised in civil rights... It is a battle on a legal battleground and maybe that is where there should be a focus. Those with perceived civil rights violations have standing in courts and seem to have an upper hand over the citizens held hostage funding their ACLU created rights and liberties. The citizens that have to pick up the tab in cases such as this seem to have no standing...
In this case, I guess as long as New York taxpayers pick up the meal tab the ACLU will continue adding menu items to the progressive buffet...
Oh, no! We certainly don't want people in this country missing out on something FREE (i.e., something paid for by taxpaying citizens!) /sarc
Is every politician in NY an escapee from an asylum?
The State is verging on bankruptcy, like CA, but they want to continue to provide free benefits to illegal aliens!
I think it would be appropriate for other States to arrest their illegals and send them to CA and NYC. Those are the two States that have mainly driven the progressive movement toward Marxism/Socialism anyway, so let them practise it more fully ....and fail, with NO bailouts!
Wouldn’t the governor have to allow this? Why does the Education Department get to make this statement and allow this?
Change must come at the local levels as well
The Gubmint wants to no if you have health insurance,,,but not if you are a Citizen.
Yes. I would suspect it is more a case of change at the local level being 'allowed' rather than being created as we saw evidenced with the "139 of the state's 694 districts intentionally or unintentionally asked about citizenship status". Those 139 districts had the right idea and were being fiscally responsible to the citizens in their districts. They would have
At its root I would say that the problems are a result of subsidiarity and self-determination being taken away as a result of centralized power -big government is the problem...
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