Minnesota schools shut down, teachers union demands ICE leave city

Additional schools passim Minnesota canceled classes Friday successful airy of ongoing unrest aft the fatal shooting of a pistillate by a national cause connected Wednesday. 

Fridley Public Schools announced the territory volition not big in-person classes connected Friday, joining Minneapolis Public Schools aft officials canceled classes connected Thursday done the remainder of the week, according to Fox 9 Minneapolis. 

"We request ICE retired of Minneapolis now," Catina Taylor, president of the Educational Support Professionals Chapter of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators, said successful a property league connected Friday. "We request ICE distant from our schools now. Since arriving, ICE has been a unsafe and out-of-control unit putting each Minnesotan successful danger." 

Columbia Heights Public Schools besides said they are shifting to a Flex Learning Day connected Friday.

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A demonstrator faces a Border Patrol national cause astatine a protestation against the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, during a rally against accrued migration enforcement crossed the metropolis extracurricular the Whipple Building successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 8, 2026. (Tim Evans/Reuters)

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told "America's Newsroom" Friday that "our instrumentality enforcement does not spell into schools unless determination is simply a nationalist information menace wrong those schools."

"What we saw connected Wednesday, which 1 of those educators was referring to, was determination was an idiosyncratic who was assaulting our instrumentality enforcement, and helium started a pursuit that went astir 5 miles," McLaughlin said, responding to the teachers union. "The taxable of this pursuit started going implicit barriers, helium was moving reddish lights, and yet helium took the pursuit onto schoolhouse grounds. Our instrumentality enforcement did not spell into this schoolhouse and made definite to diffuse the situation."

The determination comes aft a surge of much than 2,000 national agents arrived successful the Twin Cities this week, ramping up migration efforts passim the area. 

On Wednesday, Renee Nicole Good was changeable and killed by an ICE cause aft allegedly moving her conveyance toward the officer, successful what has been described by DHS arsenic an enactment of "self-defense." 

Later that day, ICE agents deployed a chemic irritant extracurricular of Roosevelt High School successful Minneapolis and took astatine slightest 1 unit subordinate into custody.

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Portrait of Renee Nicole Good. (ODU English Department/Facebook)

"A parent was murdered, an simple schoolhouse was forced to fastener down," Taylor said. "Grown men usage capsicum spray connected terrified precocious schoolhouse students, connected schoolhouse spot – and that was conscionable connected Wednesday. This is the other of protecting our kids. This is the other of keeping the peace." 

According to information released by the National Assessment of Education Progress, little than fractional of Minnesota students successful some 4th and eighth grades were capable to show proficiency successful mathematics and speechmaking successful the 2024 schoolhouse year. 

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U.S. Border Patrol agents detain a idiosyncratic adjacent Roosevelt High School during dismissal clip arsenic national migration enforcement actions sparked unrest successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected Jan. 7, 2026. (Kerem YUCEL / AFP via Getty Images)

"What we’re seeing is that our students are inactive successful betterment mode from the onset of the pandemic," Julio Caesar, enforcement manager of research, valuation and appraisal astatine Bloomington Public Schools, told MPR News astatine the time. 

However, Minnesota eighth graders ranked 4th successful the federation successful mathematics scores successful 2024, with 4th graders ranking successful the apical 10 among states.

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 Gov. Tim Walz besides called for a "Day of Unity" connected Friday successful airy of Good’s decease and the ongoing tensions wrong the city, asking for a infinitesimal of soundlessness astatine 10 a.m.

"As agelong arsenic ICE is successful Minnesota, we won't beryllium safe," Taylor said. "On this time of mourning, our hearts spell retired to Renee Good and her family. To marque definite nary 1 other has to endure this devastating loss, ICE needs to enactment distant from each of our schools, starting today."

Fox News' Greg Norman contributed to this report.