{"id":2568,"date":"2010-09-01T07:19:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2010-09-01T07:20:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:20:52","slug":"morning-read-north-country-schools-ordered-to-avoid-immigration-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/01\/morning-read-north-country-schools-ordered-to-avoid-immigration-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  North Country schools ordered to avoid immigration questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_0b3c74ce-b561-11df-81c0-001cc4c002e0.html\">Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting this morning<\/a> that the state Education Department is ordering school districts to avoid questioning students or parents about their immigration status.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Practices cited by the report include asking for a student&#8217;s green card &#8211; as was done in two districts in the Rochester area &#8211; to requesting a Social Security number.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the time of registration, schools should avoid asking questions related to immigration status or that may reveal a child&#8217;s immigration status, such as asking for a Social Security number,&#8221; according to the Education Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Education Department report was issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyclu.org\/news\/nyclu-analysis-1-5-new-york-state-school-districts-puts-illegal-barriers-immigrant-children\">after the American Civil Liberties Union identified 163 school districts<\/a> that appeared to be asking &#8220;for information that, the group said, could have been unlawfully barring or discouraging the enrollment of immigrant students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyclu.org\/files\/releases\/Unconstitutional_School_District_List_07.23.10.pdf\">Here&#8217;s a link to the school districts identified by the ACLU as having problematic procedures<\/a>.\u00a0 The list includes quite a few districts across the North Country, from Peru and Queensbury to Canton and Moriah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting this morning that the state Education Department is ordering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}