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As federal immigration officials carry out mass arrests in Los Angeles and President Donald Trump unilaterally calls in the military to confront protesters 鈥� prompting civil unrest across the country this week 鈥� the city鈥檚 school chief vowed to . 

• L.A. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced  around high school graduations, my colleague Ben Chapman reports. 
  
• 鈥淥ur schools are places of education and inspiration, not fear and intimidation,” Carvalho, once an undocumented immigrant himself, said while announcing an order for school police officers to 鈥渋ntervene鈥� against any Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents should they attempt to detain or arrest anyone at school functions. 鈥淢any of us here are immigrants or children of immigrants.鈥�   
  
• Some parents in the district 鈥� which enrolls an estimated 30,000 immigrant students 鈥� said they planned to  due to immigrant enforcement fears. 
  
• In April, Carvalho  who paid visits to two L.A. elementary schools to conduct 鈥渨ellness checks鈥� on unaccompanied minors who came to the country without their parents. 

For students graduating high school this spring, the anti-immigrant climate has raised , including worries about their ability to pursue college or job-training programs.

They鈥檙e coming for the youth: 社区黑料鈥檚 Jo Napolitano reported this week on the  in New York, Massachusetts and other states, and the pain that followed. 

• 鈥淔or other communities, this is a wake-up call,鈥� immigrant rights activist Adam Strom said. 鈥淭he unimaginable is happening in communities like their own, to students not so different from the kids in their own classrooms.鈥�
• Among them is 9-year-old M谩rtir Garc铆a Lara, an L.A. fourth grader who was deported to Honduras with his father. The father and son were detained by immigration officials when they showed up to a routine immigration hearing. | 
•  who arrived in the U.S. as unaccompanied  minors have been taken into federal custody following 鈥渨elfare checks鈥� like the ones at L.A. schools. 
• The Trump administration has said  they believe are now 鈥渟laves, sex slaves or dead.鈥� Immigrant rights advocates say  to deport the adults around them. 

In Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis ordered the state labor department to  after it received a subpoena from the Trump administration, a whistleblower lawsuit alleges.

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In the news

A 鈥榤isconfiguration,鈥� kept under wraps: BoardDocs, a software tool used by thousands of school boards to publicize meetings and store confidential information, suffered a technical glitch that exposed the sensitive records of school districts nationally, I revealed this week. Multiple districts that are BoardDocs customers said they were unaware of the incident until I contacted them and, in several instances, received confirmation only after reaching out directly to parent company Diligent. | 

• Nineteen-year-old Matthew Lane pleaded guilty in Massachusetts federal court for his role in a recent cyberattack on education technology behemoth PowerSchool, which led to a data breach exposing the personal information of millions of students, parents and teachers globally. | 

David Hogg, an outspoken survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, said he will not run again for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee after he faced fierce pushback for funding the campaigns of candidates running against sitting lawmakers in primary races. | 

New Jersey schools place children with disabilities in separate educational settings away from their nondisabled peers at the highest rate in the country, potentially in violation of a federal law that affirms the children’s right to learn in general ed classrooms 鈥渢o the maximum extent possible.鈥� | 

Following outcry, the U.S. Naval Academy has reversed its decision to scrap from its library 381 books that mentioned diversity, equity and inclusion. |

My colleague Linda Jacobson reported in depth this week on a California mom whose three-year crusade against a school district that supported her child鈥檚 social transition from female to male is at the heart of the Trump administration鈥檚 forceful effort to clamp down on educators who withhold changes in students鈥� gender identity from their parents. | 

Aggressive enforcement despite layoffs: Trump鈥檚 pick to lead civil rights enforcement at the Education Department, Kimberly Richey, said at a Senate hearing last week she is 鈥渁lways going to advocate鈥� for the office even as the administration guts its staff. | 

• 鈥淚f I am confirmed, the department will not stand idly by while Jewish students are attacked and discriminated against,鈥� Richey said. 鈥淲e will stop forcing schools to let boys and men into female sports and spaces,鈥� she continued, referring to inclusive school policies that allow transgender students to participate in school athletics and use restrooms that align with their gender identities. | 

The Supreme Court announced it would not consider a case that challenged Maryland鈥檚 ban on semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 and imposed 10-round limits on gun magazines, rules that were implemented in response to the 2012 mass elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. | 

Firearms deaths among children have surged since a 2010 Supreme Court decision gave states more control over gun laws, a new study finds. | 

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