Given the demographics of Kalifornia's government schools, consider that the cost of "cheap" labor for the richest grandees in Kalifornia. Call it a special illegal-alien tax so that the Spielbergian grandees can have cheaper nannies, so that contractors can have cheaper nonunion laborers, so that small factories can have cheaper workers even as the job market is glutted with downsized native-born ones.
I have to wonder why either major party would carry water for this institution that performs so poorly. If, as you suggest we are spending better than half of the state's budget to provide cheap labor to the market, we are being scr*wed, royally.
That a significant proportion of our 'granulates' will have to compete for jobs with illegals at all does not speak well of the performance of our beloved (and expensive) public schools.
"Lawnmower 101: prerequsite: Leafblower 2A." Do they even offer these classes?