A new Oklahoma State Department of Education proposal would track the number of K-12 students whose parents don’t have legal immigration status.
Under the proposed administrative rule, Oklahoma schools would have to ask students’ parents or legal guardians to provide proof of their own citizenship and a student’s upon enrollment.
If they can’t do that, the students will be counted. The state would then receive the aggregate number from each district “of students enrolled within the district for which a parent or a legal guardian of a child, or the emancipated minor could not provide proof of citizenship or legal immigration status…due to the lack of citizenship or legal immigration status of the student.”
