Texas

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42679407

In the guidance released Tuesday evening, the education agency said students, teachers or school districts participating in “inappropriate political activism” could face the following consequences:

• Students being marked absent and districts losing state funding.
• Educators being investigated and disciplined, including losing their teaching license.
• Districts facing state oversight, including the replacement of an elected school board with a board of managers.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday requested documents from Austin ISD on student leave policies and internal communications during Friday’s protest and accused district officials of encouraging students to participate.

Hundreds of students also walked out of schools Monday in Hays Consolidated Independent School District, during which two students were arrested by police and several others got into a physical altercation with a passerby. The district denied any connection to facilitating or condoning the walkouts and asserted that “future walkouts cannot happen.”