Maybe in the 70’s - 90’s....but, how does EP/TX get away with charging Mexican nationals for tuition, while GIVING IT AWAY, for FREE, to those Mexicans here ILLEGALLY?
Also, what is ‘fair’ about allowing these paying non-citizens to utilize all of the programs/facilities that are paid for by EP/TX taxpayers? Who sets those rates? Who approved those applicants and accepted the tuition fees? The Board?
Just curios. Thanks.
“how does EP/TX get away with charging Mexican nationals for tuition, while GIVING IT AWAY, for FREE, to those Mexicans here ILLEGALLY?”
Well, it’s mandated by federal law. If a child resides (legally or illegally) in your district, you have to send them to school. EPISD didn’t write that law. It just follows it.
The kids who reside in Juarez (many of which kids are US citizens by birth whose parents live in Mexico, BTW) whose parents pay tuition do not reside in the district — so they pay tuition.
The tuition-paying kids are solidly middle or upper class (think doctor and lawyer kids) and some of the best students. They also tend to go to Cathedral (private RCC school, which I went to, along with El Paso High).
It’s a weird border thing. Back in the 1980s, you could be in downtown and cross back and forth to Juarez without intending to. (I think there might be a guard asleep in a booth.) The street signs would just change to “ALTO”.
Then cocaine happened.