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HOUSTON – Houston-area students have been hosting their own walkouts this week to protest against federal immigration operations.<\/p>\n
Houston student walkouts <\/p>\n
Local perspective:<\/p>\n
Campuses from multiple Houston school districts walked off their campuses protesting federal immigration authorities, mostly against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE.<\/p>\n
Many students held signs with statements such as, “We’re skipping our less to teach you one,” or “No human is illegal on stolen land.”<\/p>\n
Others carried flags representing different countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Multiple students told FOX 26 that they felt the need to speak out against the immigration crackdown, especially following the related incidents in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Protest pushback from Texas officials <\/p>\n
Big picture view:<\/p>\n
With student protests happening around the state, the Texas Education Agency is warning teachers and school districts about the consequences of actions related to political activism.<\/p>\n
The TEA outlined some of the ramifications of anti-ICE walkouts in schools:<\/p>\n
Students must be marked as absent and schools risk losing daily attendance funding if they allow or encourage students to walk out of class.Teachers that facilitate walk-outs will be subject to investigation and sanction including licensure revocation.School systems that facilitate walkouts will be subject to investigation and sanction, including either the appointment of a monitor, conservator or board of managers. <\/p>\n
FULL REPORT: TEA warns teachers, districts of consequences to demonstrations<\/a><\/p>\n Gov. Greg Abbott has also been threatening consequences for Texas schools regarding the protests, including a threat to strip funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gov. Abbott has also called for an investigation into Austin ISD<\/a> because of student-led protests.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report comes from Houston student walkouts and previous FOX reports.<\/p>\n Houston<\/a>Immigration<\/a>Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – Houston-area students have been hosting their own walkouts this week to protest against federal immigration operations.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[163,56,58,57,1724,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-154228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}