- Minnesota educators warn that upcoming state standardized test results will reflect widespread trauma and academic disruption following a major federal immigration operation.
- Operation Metro Surge, a deployment of federal immigration agents by the Trump administration, resulted in two deaths, over 4,000 arrests, and intense community fear.
- Federal agents routinely targeted areas near school perimeters and neighborhood drop-off zones, causing severe anxiety and emotional distress among students. The city’s education system, one teacher said, became “hunting grounds” where agents “follow brown children home.”
- Midyear enrollment in 29 Minnesota school districts dropped by approximately 1,700 students, alongside sharp increases in absenteeism. “Kids literally disappeared,” Fridley Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Lewis told Sahan Journal and MPR News. “Literally in an unprecedented manner. Overnight.”
- Teachers' union leaders are calling on state officials and the public to evaluate upcoming test scores in the proper context of the federal operation's disruptions.
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