(Massive cuts in spending (+) Massive illegal alien invasion in public schools = Massive Illiteracy Rates)
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With states straining under gaping budget shortfalls, public schools throughout the country are facing some of the most significant decreases in state education funding in decades.In some states, drastic cuts mean lay-offs for teachers, larger class sizes, fewer textbooks, and eliminating sports, language programs, and after-school activities.
Nearly two-thirds of the states have cut back or proposed reductions in support for childcare and early childhood programs. Some are even shortening the school week from five days to four.
Whoa! I checked out the stats on my neighborhood public elementary school: 76% of students qualify for free or low-cost lunches and 55% of students are in ESL classes.
My daughter's going to private school!
This illustrates that there's a big difference in the cost of illegal aliens depending upon which state you're in. My state is near the bottom, thankfully so my property taxes don't subsidize many children of illegal aliens.
Ohio spends 183 million or about 1/4 that of either Mass or WA even though Ohio has twice the population.
Ohio has very few immigrants or illegals. Ohio is 85% white. Ohio is 49th in job creation (Michigan is last) and has an unemployment rate of 6.3%.
One in 6 Ohioans are on medicaid compared to 1 in 10 nationally.
My point in this is that if you eliminate immigration, you still may not get paradise.
I will add that is Ohio doing badly because there is no immigration or is there no immigration because Ohio is doing badly ? Further, there may be zero correlation between doing badly and immigration.
Finally, I skimmed all the numbers in this article and nothing seems out of line. The article makes a good case for reducing immigration.
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HA! BSF - Mississippi has fewer than your state.
A grateful that Mississippi is near the bottom of this list ping.
No one knows how many illegals (Mexicans plus many other Nationalitys) there are in the U.S... How could they.?. Numbers this seemingly accurate are an estimation.. no doubt a really low estimate.. Many illegals mask legals with some kind of I.D.. Only stands to reason most illegals don't want to be counted.. and aren't..
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Public school funding is financed in part by ADA (average daily attendance), and this article does not mention that at all.