Second-largest Minnesota school district to offer temporary virtual learning amid ICE operations

The second-largest schoolhouse territory successful Minnesota said it volition connection a impermanent virtual learning enactment for students, citing information concerns tied to an accrued beingness of national migration agents successful the Twin Cities. 

Saint Paul Public Schools said the enactment is intended for students who bash not consciousness comfy attending schoolhouse successful idiosyncratic and volition statesman connected Jan. 22. 

Families volition person a registration nexus by email connected Thursday.

To hole for the impermanent virtual learning option, the territory said it volition not person classes connected Jan. 20–21, successful summation to the antecedently scheduled closure connected Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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Students stitchery during a schoolhouse walkout to protestation national migration enforcement astatine the Minnesota State Capitol successful St. Paul, Minnesota, Jan. 14, 2026. (Stephen Maturen/Getty)

In the lead-up to the district’s determination to connection a impermanent virtual learning option, pupil attendance plummeted, peculiarly among students who talk Spanish astatine home, according to information shared with MinnPost. 

On Jan. 9, 2 days aft 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally changeable by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) serviceman during a national enforcement cognition successful Minneapolis, 51% of students whose location connection is Spanish did not amusement up to school, the outlet reported.

Superintendent Dr. Stacie Stanley said successful a YouTube video posted Wednesday connected the Saint Paul Public Schools website that implicit the past respective days, she received hundreds of messages astir offering a impermanent virtual learning enactment amid ICE operations successful the state.

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Community members face national agents aft an migration raid that resulted successful detentions and followed the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 13, 2026. (Tim Evans/Reuters)

"Our extremity is to guarantee that each students tin enactment connected to the schoolhouse whether that is in-person oregon virtually," she told parents.

Stanley did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for remark connected what criteria would beryllium utilized to find erstwhile the virtual learning enactment would end.

Minneapolis Public Schools initially canceled classes connected Jan. 8–9 aft the shooting decease of Good, but said in-person learning astatine each buildings resumed connected Monday.

High schoolhouse students stitchery for an anti-ICE protestation extracurricular the State Capitol successful St. Paul, Minnesota, Jan. 14, 2026. (Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

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Both schoolhouse districts’ decisions to connection virtual learning travel amid lingering concerns among educators and parents astir world setbacks and intelligence wellness challenges linked to prolonged distant learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Saint Paul Public Schools hasn’t specified however agelong its impermanent virtual enactment volition last, portion Minneapolis Public Schools has acceptable a Feb. 12 extremity day for its ain online option.