Central Okanagan school district considering sanctuary schools policy
RAMA Okanagan, a local group that advocates for migrant farm workers, is supporting the proposal and will be presenting to the board on Wednesday night.
“The second part of sanctuary school policies [is] about ensuring schools are safe zones: that schools promise not to share families information with federal authorities unless they are compelled to do so by law.” “We heard from them that they had six students in one year so it is not like an overwhelming number but for those few students it is a really big deal,” said Bowman.
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