Daily student absences rose 22% among more than 100,000 children living in California’s rural Central Valley in the weeks following January 2025 immigration raids, according to a newly peer reviewed Stanford University study.
The 113,000 children in the Stanford study — they attended Bakersfield City Elementary, Fresno Unified, Kerman Unified, Southern Kern Unified and Tehachapi Unified school districts — lost more than 81,000 days of instruction in the two months following the January raids, which lasted three days and targeted agriculture workers.
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