By Louis Freedberg, EdSource, November 8, 2019
Exactly a quarter of a century ago, on Nov. 8, 1994, Californians went to the polls to vote on Proposition 187, an initiative to expel undocumented students from its public schools and universities.
That was despite a Supreme Court ruling a dozen years earlier that schools were required to educate all students regardless of their immigration status.
Among its many provisions was that schools officials would have had to identify all undocumented students in their schools. Parents would have 45 days to prove that they weren’t undocumented, and if they couldn’t, students would be expelled within 90 days.
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