The Durham Public Schools (DPS) board of education voted last week to modify its immigration-enforcement related school policies.
The board’s recent changes to policy 5120 won’t change much in practice. At recent meetings, administrators repeated that district and building administrators already followed the now-policy, but the board’s vote makes those provisions more official, gives a clearer path for recourse if they’re broken, and gives the public more insight into how the district may respond to enforcement situations.
The policy update, which spells out broad protocol for law enforcement’s access to schools and student information, meets some, but certainly not all of, the requests of groups like the district’s union staff, the Durham Association of Educators (DAE)…