“Wonder how all those liberals will feel when their property taxes go way, way up to pay for these extra students?”
The village of Hempstead on Long Island is primarily a blighted town of black and hispanic residents, most of whom live on the edge. No other district on the Island would put up with this. I would think that Hempstead is receiving quite a bit of state aid to put these children in school. I volunteer at a Museum village on Long Island and recently a number of 1st and 2nd grade students from this district visited. They had an interpreter with them because 80% of the children spoke no English at all.
Yes, funny how the NY Times article managed to conveniently hide the racial makeup of that school district. Guess it wouldn’t be politically correct to point out Hispanic discrimination by African-American school administrators!
I grew up near there in Merrick in the 69’s and 70’s and even back then Hempstead was the poorest section on Long Island.