ICE PROTEST WALKOUT TURNS INTO SCHOOL FIRESTORM

Internal emails, texts and memos are putting Flagstaff Unified under the microscope after America First Legal says the Arizona district helped facilitate a student walkout protesting ICE — with staff allegedly coordinating ahead of time and even messaging about “75 plus students” ready to leave school. The backlash is sharp: parents say they were kept in the dark as hundreds of middle and high school students walked out Jan. 28, while critics are blasting schools for turning classrooms into protest staging grounds even as many students struggle in math and English.