What you have is a result of decades of government control of schools: they "flood" the public schools because there aren't sufficient private schools. There aren't sufficient private schools for two reasons: first, the government undercuts their market with its own schools, and second, tuition is too high for the average family. Why is tuition too high? Because taxes reduce purchasing power. Because government control of the schools has taken away the mass consumer base that might lower tuition. It's a vicious cycle, perpetuated by the very existence of the public school system.
Your assertion that the immigrants go to public schools because they don't know English rings false. Non-English private schools have a long history in the United States, ranging from the German schools of Pennsylvania, to the Swedish and Norweigian schools of the midwest, to the Czech and Spanish schools of Texas. What wiped these schools out? Their seizure by the "progressives" in the early 20th century for public education.
....they are not consumers with the kind of money necessary to pay for private schools.
Again, it's the government's own fault that they're not. Allowing a free market in education would quickly bring prices to a level afforable to the masses; reducing the tax burden would only hasten this process.
And, who paid for the new public schools? Santa Claus?
No, we did. Why?
Local governments can and should plan better for growth, and if the governor's plan encourages such planning, I am all for it.
Ah yes....only government can form and shepherd our communities to their proper destinies. Planning is what is needed -- not the messy, unpredictable actions of independent citizens. You sound a familiar refrain; one proven wrong in socialist communities from New York to Moscow. Government serves the people, not vice-versa -- again, there is no reason to cause citizens to suffer simply because of governmental failures.
Pray tell me why I can't build my house simply because the local school board hasn't got its act together? Why can't I open my business just because there are 35 kids per classroom at the high school? Is this even remotely moral?
Overcrowded classrooms are no fun.
Maureen Dowd would be proud of this one.