{"id":159101,"date":"2026-02-01T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159101\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:03:24","slug":"with-sf-schools-approval-students-flood-streets-to-protest-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159101\/","title":{"rendered":"With SF schools\u2019 approval, students flood streets to protest immigration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco schools cleared the way for thousands of students to take part in walkouts Friday that filled Dolores Park and the Civic Center in protest of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

Youths from California\u2019s sixth largest school district, with 55,840 pupils, took to the streets with others ranging from Novato and San Rafael to San Mateo and San Ramon.<\/p>\n

\u201cMiddle and high school students have the right to participate in an off-campus protest and will receive an excused absence,\u201d Maria Su, the San Francisco Unified School District\u2019s superintendent, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFree speech is a protected right and something our school district takes seriously,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The walkouts follow the Jan. 24 killing of Alex Pretti<\/a> by U.S. Border Patrol agents and Renee Nichole Good<\/a> on Jan. 7 by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, both in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

Further approved walkouts may be in the offing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOne full-day excused absence for participation in a civic or political event is permitted per school year, with additional excused absences at the discretion of a school administrator,\u201d according to Su\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n

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\nSAN FRANCISCO | Demonstrators gather at Dolores Park in San Francisco, Calif., Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, during the ICE Out National Day of Resistance, a nationwide protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (ProBonoPhoto.org\/Thomas Hunter II via Bay City News)<\/p>\n

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\nSAN FRANCISCO | Demonstrators gather at Dolores Park in San Francisco, Calif., Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, during the ICE Out National Day of Resistance, a nationwide protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (ProBonoPhoto.org\/Thomas Hunter II via Bay City News)<\/p>\n

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\nSAN MATEO | High school and middle school students walk out of class to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Central Park in San Mateo, Calif., Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, as part of a nationwide National Day of Action against ICE and recent federal immigration enforcement actions. (ProBonoPhoto.org\/Paul Rosenblum via Bay City News)<\/p>\n

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\nSAN MATEO | High school and middle school students walk out of class to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Central Park in San Mateo, Calif., Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, as part of a nationwide National Day of Action against ICE and recent federal immigration enforcement actions. (ProBonoPhoto.org\/Paul Rosenblum via Bay City News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco schools cleared the way for thousands of students to take part in walkouts Friday that filled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[73654,35167,2872,14,77479,7361,65545,101,103,102,33193,2651,32172,2652,104,106,105,3183,1695,71541],"class_list":["post-159101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-alex-pretti","tag-civic-engagement","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-novato","tag-protests","tag-renee-good","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-francisco-unified-school-district","tag-san-mateo","tag-san-rafael","tag-san-ramon","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-students","tag-trump-administration","tag-walkout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}