Experts warn Minnesota school closures after ICE shooting will harm kids for 'political points'
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Minnesota schools close after ICE shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, with districts offering remote learning amid protests, but experts say closures are politically motivated.
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The choice to take children out of classrooms was described as being due to "safety concerns," but experts who spoke to Fox News Digital say it’s a decision based purely on politics that will negatively affect students in the same way COVID-19 lockdowns did.
"Minnesota’s Teachers Unions did generational damage to the state's children when they demanded schools be locked down for prolonged periods during COVID," Stefano Forte, executive director of 1776 Project PAC, told Fox News Digital. "Once again, the teachers union is acting against the interest of children and showing themselves as being nothing more than a political arm of the Democratic Party."
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