After a 15-year-old boy with disabilities was detained outside a local high school by federal agents this week in a case of mistaken identity, education leaders fear many families will keep their children away out of fear of immigration raids.

That incident unfolded around 9:30 a.m. on Monday, just days before more than half a million LAUSD students return to classrooms. According to Los Angeles Unified School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the student — who attends San Fernando High School — had gone to Arleta High with his grandmother to accompany a relative registering for classes.

The frightened boy was removed from the car and placed in handcuffs, though after school staff and the Los Angeles Police Department intervened, he was released.

“The release will not release him from wh

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