A new proposal that will require parents to provide proof of citizenship or immigration status for enrolling students in Oklahoma public schools received unanimous approval by the State Board of Education Tuesday as officials aim to bolster President Trump’s immigration policies. 

The new rule, which still needs support from lawmakers and the governor, wouldn’t prohibit children without legal status from attending school but would require districts to keep track of students whose parents or guardians fail to provide the requested documentation. 

That information, excluding personal information and names of parents, would then be sent to the State Department of Education. 

State Superintendent Ryan Walters, who spearheaded the initiative, said the district is taking action to help schools acquire information about where resources and personnel are needed to ensure success for every student. 

“Our rule around illegal immigration accounting is simply that it is to account for how many students of illegal immigrants are in our schools,” Walters said during Tuesday’s vote, where he also disputed “media gaslighting” while emphasizing a need to sustain progress in all schools. 

“Why do we need that account? Well, to be clear, we know that, at a minimum, the state of Oklahoma spent $474 million to educate the children of illegal immigrants under the Biden administration. That is personnel from inside the school year to meet the needs of those students, those are numbers that we didn’t have information on.” 

The state’s education chief said the collected data will then be handed over to the Trump administration and law enforcement — days after he publicly announced plans to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to raid Oklahoma schools. 

There are no reports of ICE agents entering the state’s school system.

The proposal drew a crowd of hundreds of students, teachers and protesters who gathered outside the Oliver Hodge Building during the vote.

“I had a student tell me that he’s going to withdraw for a month and see where things are,” Fernando Baquera Ochoa, a teacher at US Grant High School in southwest Oklahoma City told The Oklahoman. 

“It’s affecting our classrooms. It’s affecting the way we’re learning and who is learning.”

Javier Terrazas, who has an elementary school-aged daughter, said parents are living in fear and looking over their shoulders as they pick up their children from school — a sight he said he’s never seen before, AP reported. 

Rep. Arturo Alonso-Sandoval, a Democrat who represents Oklahoma City’s heavily Hispanic south side, said teachers and civil liberty groups have slammed the proposal for stoking fear within the immigrant community.

“The community is scared, obviously,” Alonso-Sandoval said. 

“The conversations I’ve had with parents, all they’re doing is trying to provide the best opportunity for the kids, like any parents. They are starting to question: Do I unenroll my child from school?”

The proposal’s passage comes one week after the 47th president declared a national emergency at the US-Mexico border, promising to crack down on illegal migrants and outlaw foreign gang members. 

Since Trump’s first full day in office, federal officials have swept into sanctuary cities, including Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta and New York City, nabbing thousands of illegal migrants from more than a dozen nations. 

ICE officials said there have been 969 arrests and 869 detainers for deportation lodged Monday.

With Post wires