Posted on 07/28/2007 4:19:16 PM PDT by SoldierMedic
According to 2006 Census estimates, the county is nearly 57 percent Hispanic, up from 47 percent in 2000. Neighboring Adams County quickly followed suit at 52 percent.
Overall, Washington state's Hispanic population grew by 28 percent from 2000 to 2006. That makes it the fastest-growing minority population in a state that borders not Mexico, but Canada.
Between 2000 and 2006, Pasco schools registered 3,700 new students - enough to fill almost a new school every year. The district has built five new schools since 1999, and 27 modular trailers substitute as classrooms outside the high school until a new one opens in 2009.
Franklin County ranks 31st nationally among more than 3,100 counties for its growth rate, and it's the fastest-growing county in the Northwest.
That kind of growth only exacerbates the challenges the district already faces, Hill said. Sixty-five percent of the students come from homes where English is not spoken or is not the primary language, and many of their parents have limited experience with schools, let alone American schools. Low-income families dominate.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
To populate is to govern.
The reconquista is in full swing. Me thinks this would be a good place to open an ICE office.
The thing is that, imo, Hispanics can be nicer people than the freaky Left Coast liberals.
Ping.
The article never said if the illegals paid taxes ...
That kind of growth only exacerbates the challenges the district already faces, Hill said. Sixty-five percent of the students come from homes where English is not spoken or is not the primary language, and many of their parents have limited experience with schools, let alone American schools. Low-income families dominate.
Successes this year have proven extra sweet. The dropout rate fell to 9 percent in the 2005-06 school year. The graduation rate improved to 64 percent - 74 percent for extended graduation, when students needed an extra year or two to learn the language.
But the bigger problem boils down to money, Hill said. Most of the tax base is residential, and it’s not enough to pay to educate all the children in all those new homes. Many people work on farms, some of them in neighboring counties.
“What would help us is a more industrial or commercial tax base,” she said. “It would hopefully not bring in as many young families, and it would lessen the burden on each taxpayer.”
I think you can guess by those few paragraphs that they are in deep doo doo.
Wait until those Washington state citizens find out what this invasion will cost them in $$$, jobs, hospital closures, new schools, welfare, aid to children of illegals, and diseases they never heard of before. And then there's the general dumbing down of American culture that happens with an invasion from a third world dump.
Those of us in the former state of California have experienced (and paid for) all of it, thanks to politicians who refuse to enforce our laws and who don't give a crap about America.
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Hell, where I live almost all of the tax base is residential and they zing us plenty with taxes. And yes, in my SD we have lots of children of illegals too, and they cost more because most need extra services that us taxpayers “must” provide.
WA Ping
bttt!
Yep, exactly. I'm sure the libbies were all too happy to let the alien criminals overrun everything, but we'll see how long that lasts.
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