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​Fresno’s Central Unified School District made history in naming a new elementary school after a Sikh human rights activist.​ 

​​The shock and awe is well underway. That is the new administration’s main goal. It’s straight out of the employer playbook: create confusion, sow division and fear, and inspire hopelessness. Resist the urge to panic. Instead, think like an organizer.​ 

Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District are now distributing “red cards” – also known as “Know Your Rights” cards – and other resources to remind immigrant community members what their legal rights are. 

At least eight large public school districts across the United States have vowed in recent days to try to protect undocumented immigrant students and their families from President Donald Trump's mass deportation push.

President Donald Trump’s executive order that freezes federal aid would have gone into effect Tuesday at 5 p.m. EST, but it was blocked by a federal judge.

If the courts ultimately allow the order to stand, the fallout in California could be staggering: The state received $153 billion in federal funds, which is 33.9% of the total state budget, according to the California Budget and Policy Center. Nearly $116 billion of that supports health and human services for millions of California children, seniors and families with low incomes, according to the center.

A Trump administration order freezing federal grants could have sweeping effects on schools, child care providers, education research, and more if it goes into effect.

There is widespread confusion about the impact of the freeze, and a group of Democratic attorneys general already have announced their intention to sue to block it.

A Trump administration directive paralyzed the education sector on Tuesday before a judge intervened.

Education programs across the country were plunged into uncertainty and chaos Tuesday after the Trump administration announced a federal spending freeze and government officials tried to soften the blow of a directive that started paralyzing agency functions.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.

The conservative-dominated high court has issued several decisions in recent years signaling a willingness to allow public funds to flow to religious entities. At the same time, conservative-led states have sought to insert religion into public schools, including Louisiana's requirement that the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms.