Dear friend,

Since taking office, the Trump-Vance administration has issued executive orders targeting immigrant communities and schools as sanctuaries of learning—but students and organizers are fighting back. Students, community members, and even school officials are banding together to ensure every student is safe at school regardless of reckless policies.

Taking the lead from grassroots organizers, the National Campaign for Police Free Schools has released the Protecting Immigrant Students Action Kit. This resource provides students, parents, teachers, and advocates with the tools to demand that school districts protect immigrant students and families. Including:

📚 Explainers on how federal, state, and local actions threaten immigrant communities.

📝 Model policies and resolutions that schools can adopt to counter those actions and ensure schools remain safe and welcoming places for all.

📣 Tools for organizers to push schools to adopt these policies.

💪🏾 Model School Protocols and Know Your Rights resources so students and school administrators know what to do if ICE shows up at your school.

On Wednesday, March 26 at 6:00 pm ET/3:00 pm PT, join the National Campaign for Police Free Schools for the Protecting Immigrant Students Webinar. This webinar will share strategies from our new Action Kit and highlight the work of organizers working to create safe and welcoming schools for all.

Read the action kit and sign-up for the webinar to learn how you can join the movement to create police- and ICE-free schools where all students are safe and able to thrive. 

In solidarity,
The Advancement Project Team

The National Campaign for Police Free Schools is co-convened by the Advancement Project and the Alliance for Educational Justice and includes dozens of organizations from across the country. It is a formation of youth-led grassroots organizations fighting to end the criminalization of youth in the classroom, create liberatory educational spaces, and implement an affirmative vision of safety and transformative justice. Visit www.policefreeschools.org to learn more.