Feds: Schools can’t shut out undocumented immigrants

*Key here is the fact that the Administration had to rule on this matter again, that it had to clarify something that should have been settled.  It seems some people, in some places, need repetition to understand a simple concept: all children have a right to enroll in public school, regardless of immigration status. VL

By Cailtin Emma, Politico

The Obama administration delivered an unequivocally clear message — again — on Thursday: All children have a right to enroll in public schools regardless of their citizenship or immigration status.

Three years after clarifying to schools that they cannot turn away children, the Education and Justice Departments issued another set of guidance documents that provide in painstaking detail what schools can and cannot ask for when families want to enroll their children. The agencies also provided examples of acceptable enrollment policies.

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