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Kelly Gonez, a longtime school board member in the Los Angeles Unified School District, says public school enrollment declines worsened after ICE raids escalated in the city in 2025. District officials say low birth rates and the loss of immigrant children in classrooms mean school campuses will likely have to close.
Carlos Jaramillo for NPR
Low birth rates were emptying public schools. ICE deportations are now making it worse
Brian Mann
School enrollment was already expected to plunge by 2 million kids by 2030. Education experts say deporting immigrant families, many with school-age children, is making the crisis worse.
From left: Governor-elect David Crowley, Heidi Klum, Pope Leo.
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Fill in the blank in the quiz: Vance says they lost the midterms because of ____
Holly J. Morris
A mototaxi pass drives past a banner of Pope Leo XIV at Pimentel beach in Chiclayo, Peru, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, ahead of his planned trip to Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru from November 6 to 17.
Martin Mejia
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AP
After cancer surgery, Pope Leo embarks on Latin America trip
The Associated Press
Demonstrators stand at Memorial Circle to protest President Trump's proposed arch on Thursday night as a federal panel heard hours of testimony from concerned citizens. It voted to approve the structure.
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A judge blocks construction of Trump's arch moments after it won federal approval
Rachel Treisman
Texas Standard
Latino voters reflect on historic Democratic wins as Texas shifts left
Two years after Donald Trump flipped longtime Democratic strongholds in the Rio Grande Valley, the region swung back toward Democrats in an election that will bring Texas its first Latina...
Texas Democrats want to reshape schools, healthcare and taxes. Can they deliver?
Democrats flip Texas House amid generational wave
Republicans target each other with blunt criticism after massive statewide losses in midterm flip
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