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| "accusations of xenophobia" This is no more xenophobic than out of state tuition being higher than local tuition. Out of hemisphere should be even higher. |
Posted on 03/24/2006 8:25:23 AM PST by summer
TALLAHASSEE - The Florida House passed Gov. Jeb Bush's "A-plus-plus" plan Thursday despite questions from opponents about its constitutionality.
The bill, which passed 85-35, substantially revises Bush's 1999 A-plus education plan, adding subject majors for high-school students and enforcing performance-based pay for teachers. The bill now heads to the Senate...
The House also approved a bill denying financial aid to foreign college students on temporary visas from all but Caribbean and Latin American countries.
Amid Democrats' accusations of xenophobia, the House voted 96-23 Thursday for the proposal from Rep. Dick Kravitz, R-Orange Park, which would deny state-funded financial assistance to foreign students and channel the money into need-based aid for legal Florida residents.
The bill heads next to the Senate.
Democrats immediately panned the policy for discouraging campus diversity.
"This bill takes a very myopic view of what America is supposed to be," said Rep. Curtis Richardson, D-Tallahassee.
Kravitz pointed out that members of Florida's substantial population of Caribbean and Latin American college students would keep their financial aid packages, owing to existing state law that classifies them as state residents for tuition purposes.
The bill, Kravitz told his opponents, would promote "local diversity," not just "global diversity" on Florida campuses.
"This is one attempt to move our citizens to the front of the line," Kravitz said. "Once we take care of our own, there is no problem providing money for other people."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.tbo.com ...
FYI.
Well, I haven't read the bill, but the article does specify "legal" residents of FL will be getting this aid, as needs-based aid, instead of foreigners.
Flashback Texas, August 2005
"WASHINGTON – Nearly 4,000 Texas students would face a major tuition hike or loss of state financial aid if a conservative legal group successfully challenges a state law that has made college affordable for many illegal immigrants."
Sadly the original article is down but I preserved some of it in a blog.
The bottom line is that this is state issue but its replicated all across the country and anybody who tries to fix it gets called racist.
http://rationalconservative.blogspot.com/2005/08/in-state-rates-for-illegal-immigrants.html
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| "accusations of xenophobia" This is no more xenophobic than out of state tuition being higher than local tuition. Out of hemisphere should be even higher. |
BTW, I don't know how many people reading about this bill, especially Dem lurkers, will realize this true fact: well-known private universities. even the most liberal ones, typically prohibit all forms of gift financial aid to foreign students. Foreigners usually have to cough up all that money on their own.
I'm glad our citizens are now at the front of the line, with gazillions of non-citizens from the Carribean and Latin America. I feel much better now.
Good point.
I don't know how that existing law came into being! From the article, it sounds like something that was in place awhile ago, though I don't know for sure.
Re your post #8 - Very interesting. Thanks for the link; I did go and read it.
If you have round eyes and white skin, "Git to the back of the line!"
I could see giving aid to permanaent residents but not folks here on visas.
"Yet another way would be to say that 4,000 people have been caught stealing from the tax payers.
It's amazing to me that FL colleges, or any states, have given aid money to foreign students on visas, when private univrsities flush with financial aid money for students will not even do that -- and haven't done that for a very long time!
The Republicans have saved the day! Respect their authoritah!
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