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- School Attendance Drops Amid Border Patrol Fears
- Scenes from Border Patrol Response in Wake
- Durham’s Response to Border Patrol Activity
- DOGE Cuts and the Triangle’s Midterm Elections
- Food Distribution Effort Underway in Durham
Good morning, readers.
Some more grim news for you this week: Thousands of the Triangle’s K-12 public school students are missing school during the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration enforcement crackdown.
A Durham high school teacher told me that only six of the 24 students in her English as a Second Language class showed up on Tuesday. On Wednesday, only three of those students showed up.
And of the Latino students in the class, only one came in on Tuesday, she said. “And he was sick to his stomach because his mom works in Raleigh and he hasn’t heard from her all day.”
Her class is an extreme case. But as my coworker Chloe and I reported, 20.9 percent of Durham students stayed home on Tuesday. In Wake and Chapel Hill-Carrboro, 10 percent and eight percent stayed home, respectively.
Chloe crunched the Wake numbers and found that at Title I schools—where Hispanic students are overrepresented compared to the district at-large—the absence rates were even higher than the district overall.
For more on the absentee spike this week—and to hear a spot of good news about what community members and administrators are trying to do about it—check out our most recent story.
And have a good Thursday.
—Chase
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