By Richard Bammer

Fairfield-Suisun Unified leaders, when they meet tonight, will vote on whether to designate the school district as a “safe haven” for all students, hear an update on the governor’s proposed 2017-18 budget, and review and possibly approve changes for Dan O. Root II K-8 school.

The board’s safe-haven decision will come some seven weeks after state schools chief Tom Torlakson released a letter — sent to county and school district superintendents, charter school leaders and principals — encouraging California’s 10,500 public schools be declared safe havens for students and their parents and to remind families about existing laws that protect students’ records from questions about immigration status. Some large districts, Los Angeles Unified and Sacramento City Unified, have already declared themselves to be safe havens, two districts, among many others statewide with sizable populations of Hispanics, students of color, and student with diverse religious beliefs.

Source: ‘Safe haven’ resolution on Fairfield-Suisun school district agenda tonight