Posted on 01/03/2010 11:37:59 AM PST by harpu
More than half of state’s students disadvantaged, report finds
Almost six out of 10 Texas public schoolchildren hail from low-income families, marking a troubling spike in poverty over the last decade, a new state report finds.
The increase coincides with a significant jump in the number of Hispanic students, while fewer Anglo students were enrolled last year than 10 years ago, according to the study by the Texas Education Agency. Schools also are educating many more children whose primary language is not English.
The rapidly changing makeup of the Texas public school classroom poses growing challenges for the state. Impoverished and disadvantaged children are more likely to falter academically and drop out, and educating struggling students can be costly.
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Texas has seen one of the biggest enrollment booms in the nation, growing 20 percent over the decade to 4.7 million students last school year, according to the TEA report. Enrollment in all U.S. public schools increased 8.1 percent.
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Shocking.
Yes, the illegal aliens need to be deported, but most of the Hispanic students in the Texas public schools were born in the USA and are American citizens.
You beat me!
And all those Katrina refugees who stayed in Texas?
No Kidding.
True
the babies we paid for were born in USA but if we send the illegal parents home some of the kids will go with them.
We pay for their birth, their medical care, low rent housing food stamps and WIC, then we pay for their schooling IN SPANISH until 9th grade at which time they drop out of school( since they don’t know enough English to pass tests) and go on welfare or crime or both.
Boy are we stupid
True enough!
Not that simple.
1st ya have to secure the border so more “illegals” don’t come here.
Then ya make it illegal to hire an illegal or rent to one and then ya round them up and send them elsewhere.
They're only trained enough to tell the difference between a D and R on the ballot machine.
The industrial revolution has been berry berry good to barry.
No we're not. We just have less political clout than the agribusinesses, meat packers, construction industries, restaurant industries, and cleaning services who hire these people for CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP.
But hey, that's the free market. This is truly a triumph of the free market, and I know we'd all be cheering if we weren't so pissed off.
These businesses figured out a way not only to have cheap labor but to have the taxpayers foot the bill for the messy human spillover, medical bills, school costs, etc, and to see to it that government not enforce the few crappy regulations that are on the books.
Those guys, the guys running these industries -- they're farkin' brilliant!! They have mastered the free market. Who are we to complain?
And of course- one of my biggest fantasies- verify once and for all, SCOTUS, that children born to illegals are NOT citizens of the US.
Won't be but another generation or two and they will have taken over Texas. They are absolutely upfront about their intentions. In the process they will turn it into the hell hole they came from.
Not me.
I've never held it against the illegals for wanting to come here. If I were in their situation, I'd likely do the same thing.
Nor have I held it against the employers for taking advantage of their low-cost labor. As you note, they are simply practicing free market economics. And, so long as you can get away with it, why not?
But I hold a deep and abiding animus against a federal government that has been derelict of its duty, actually enabling illegal behavior by steadfastly looking the other way -- on the border and in the workplace.
It's not Pedro's fault. Nor is it the Chamber of Commerce's fault. The blame belongs squarely on Teddy Kennedy, John S. McCain and George W. Bush, et al.
I think that is coming to an end. I hope there are enough of us now to stop this.
I have no problem letting in people who have been vetted and who can prove they can support themselves.
amazing that every raid plant has been able to hire enough citizens to stay open.
One thing businesses can’t do is vote. That is the one thing we still have but we must act.
What to do about it? Well, we've tried voting the bastards out and yet only manage to vote new bastards in. And the Supreme Court has ruled that campaign contributions are a form of protected speech under the Constitution. Seems the only way around that is a constitutional amendment -- but do we really want to go there?
Realistically, illegal immigrants/workers will disappear only when the industries that use them decide they no longer need them -- and not a day sooner.
Oh, yes, they've stayed open, but with big hits to their profits and the added headache of dealing with workers (US citizens) who aren't terrified to complain about health/safety/wage violations.
I haven’t seen any negative profit reports from any of the companies who were raided.
do you have any information on that
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