I don't live down there but payment maybe the issue. For sure it will mean a loss of operating revenue to the ISD from State funding.
Here's some info from an article on Sept 10, 2009.
Del Rio News Hearld
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But on Wednesday morning, district officials were at the port that separates Del Rio from its sister city, Ciudad Acuña, Coah., Mex., with a message for parents.
“Your child was observed crossing into the United States from Mexico to attend school…Your child will be withdrawn from the school district immediately,” reads a letter handed from district officials to parents at the port Wednesday morning.
The letter directs parents to the district's Office of Pupil Services to provide proof of residence in the United States.
Superintendent Kelt Cooper said the move came after the district received a report that more than 540 school age children were recorded crossing into the U.S.
“When we have vans with Coahuila license plates dropping kids off at elementary schools and a report that says hundreds of kids are coming across…we have a problem,” says Cooper. “With these kinds of numbers, it was out of control…it was right in our face.”
Under state law, the only students allowed a free public education in the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District are those who reside within it, and Cooper says it’s his job to enforce that law.
“I am commanded by the laws of this state and the policies of this district,” said Cooper. “I also have a duty to our taxpayers.”
But the loss of students also means a loss of revenue for the district, which receives state funding based on student enrollment and attendance.
“Is this going to hurt my budget? It's a $2.7 million loss, of course it's going to hurt,” said Cooper. “But the fact is, that wasn't our money to begin with.”
Children crossing the Rio Grande to attend school is nothing new and is something Cooper, who was born, raised and spent most of his career in border communities, has seen before.
In 2002 Cooper, then the superintendent of the Nogales school district in Arizona, was part of an initiative in that state to weed Mexico residents out of its school systems.
“This has been going on for decades,” said Cooper. “It's a game of cat-and- mouse and it's not specific to Del Rio.”
Cooper says he's seen families go to great lengths to get their children into schools.
“Parents will come over and establish residences for a month before school starts. They rent a house or apartment, get utilities in their name and register their children for school. Then a month later they're back in Mexico,” says Cooper, adding that the issue has nothing to do with immigration status, citing a 1982 Supreme Court case that prohibits districts from even asking that question.end snip
Wow! He gets it! Claiming illegal students as legitimate residents which resulted in $2.7 million dollars from the state of Texas (Taxpayer funds) that they weren't entitled to. Will it cost them some money? Yes. But, don't worry...without that money, Del Rio will probably just get more of the Robin Hood money now. I wonder if someone will ever figure out that that money isn't theirs to begin with either!