1 In 5 California Students Is An Illegal Immigrant Or Anchor Baby...$17.4 Billion To Educate

"Although California’s state budget allocates $88.3 billion for K-12 education ($51.6 billion state dollars, the rest is local and federal money), California’s public schools are struggling.

California not only has one of the highest student-to-teacher ratios in the country—35% above the national average—but per-pupil spending has been decreasing steadily in recent years.

In fact, a recent study ranked California’s K-12 public education system as the 37th worst in the Union, in terms of educational quality—and 49th in terms of school safety.

This is a serious problem: it hurts our kids, and our society more broadly. If we’re going to fund public education, it has to be done right.

While academics attribute it to a plethora of marginally relevant factors, like the difficulty in raising taxes, a lack of federal support—even racism—they’re missing the answer that’s right under their nose.

Another good reason to allow Kalifornia to secede

To hell with that idea.

Kick out the illegal invaders and send the Lefties packing with them if possible. Once millions of illegal aliens are gone it is possible a balance may return to the State. Certainly the voting numbers will shift in a good direction and probably by the millions.

If not, at least we won't have a hostile Aztlan or a Chinese colony sitting on our western border and we get to keep the military bases, the ports, the oil, and the rich farmlands even though we have to put up with fruits, nuts, and a bunch of Leftist whiners.

This is another clear example of why we should follow the money when cities, counties and states are adamant that we can't defund and deport illegals, even criminal illegals. Most state and lower government organizations are as big as they are because much of the funding coming in, a lot of it federal, is based on the number of people served.

School districts get paid state and federal funds based on the enrolled number of students and daily attendance figures. The larger those numbers, the more staff they can employ, the bigger their organizations are, the more advancement and power and income is enabled for those running the show, and, oh by the way, the more members=dues=power for the teachers and government employee unions.

When 20% of your funding depends on illegals, and a similar number for law enforcement, and a similar or higher number for social services, that becomes a scary thing to potentially have to give up.

Think about it: the students and criminals aren't getting paid a penny of these tens of billions (nationally many hundreds of billions if not a trillion). It is government employees and contractors who get paid the billions for providing these services to the illegals and criminals.

If you are working in industry or for yourself, would you be unconcerned with losing 20-25% of your budget? Probably not, though you would soon figure out ways to deal with that and regrow in some other way that benefits you or your company's objectives. But with government work your position and income is mostly based on the size of your staff and contractor staff, which is your budget. Worse, if you are an elected official being pushed to slash the jobs of your constituents, you are really unhappy. Apparently sufficiently unhappy to go on TV and state openly that you are in favor of continuing to violate federal law.

Follow the money and it tells you how this federal/state revenue-sharing to fund state/local education, social services and law enforcement drives this unlawful behavior of leaders in local jurisdictions.

We should end revenue-sharing for anything other than infrastructure of national importance, but the addiction to this money is almost terminal.

Yep and that is why I left Cali in 2000 and have a hard time stepping foot in it now even though I have immediate family and close friends living there. It’s just too oppressive now. If we could wind the clock back to the 80’s population; it would be possible to live there again. Not likely but possible.

Really sad too. Such a great state geographically but demographically and politically it’s a snake pit.

So what’s the problem?

The ONLY Problem with our public schools here is the Public Employees Don’t support them At ALL!!!

I propose we make it MANDATORY as a Term of Employment, that All ‘Public Employees” be required to send their offspring to the Public School System.

Watch how fast it is reformed.

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