Washington-area schools are facing budget crises as a result of an influx of immigrant students, according to a recent report.
Since the 2005-06 school year, the percent of students enrolled in English proficiency classes has increased by an average of nearly 70 percent across seven school districts in the D.C. metro area, according to a report by the advocacy group, Federation for American Immigration Reform, which promotes tighter border security, an end to illegal immigration and reduced levels of legal immigration.
Those classes cost an average of about one quarter of each district’s budget, and the chunk is getting larger as new students, many of them illegal immigrants or children of illegal immigrants, enroll in English-as-a-second-language classes.
“Education programs are being cut,” said the report’s author, Eric Ruark. “We’re not saying that [English proficiency classes] are the cause, but it’s certainly taking money away from them.”
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4 comments:
Does anyone know if illegals are part of the reason for the current issues in the Delmar school area?
Its part of the reason for MD fiscal problems...fre rides for everyone exvept citizens
Clearly 1:20 was affected by the illegals and missed spelling class...
Illegals are a big part of the reason for current issues at all the schools.
Especially when you have to take them aside and teach them English before you can teach them anything else.
And that is, of course, after you have FED them at least twice a day.
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