Daily student absences rose 22% in January and February across five school districts in California's Central Valley, a region with a high Latin American population potentially subject to federal immigration action, according to a Stanford University working paper released Monday.
The research attributes the increase to an upswing in federal immigration enforcement activity under the Trump administration. In the months prior to January, absenteeism data hadn't deviated over the prior three years, said Thomas Dee, a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education and the researcher behind the study.
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