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DACA repeal could oust 2,000 Texas teachers

A DACA repeal would hit bilingual educators especially hard.

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DACA supporters held a press conference in front of the Texas Attorney General's Office in Austin on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, after the Trump administration announced the program was ending. 
Credit: Julián Aguilar / The Texas Tribune

If the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is phased out — as President Donald Trump has outlined – the country could lose 20,000 teachers, 10 percent of them from Texas. (Dallas Morning News)

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