Oh My God, are you really really using the “Bush’s fault” card? LOL.... um, Perry has been governor for almost 12 years.
You are claiming “the Feds made him do it?” I call bull crap. So Texas is FORCED to educate illegals? Then why isn’t Alabama??? They are forced to teach them in Spanish??? Texas has no choice in the matter?? Please give me links to where “10th amendment” Perry fought against this?
I don't have a clue what is done in Alabama. It seems that the Obama ad. goes after border states before non-border states. Ask Guv Jan Brewer.
Yes, for the umpteenth time, TX schools have to teach illegals in their native language! ...and have for at least 25-30 years!
I worked in a suburban Harris Co. ISD and one of the 1st grade teachers, Mrs. Rodriquez, was moved to be the "bi-lingual" teacher. She hated it! Everyday she would say, "H*ll! If they had had bi-lingual classes when I started school in the valley, I'd still be in the valley speaking Spanish!"
I left the district 20 years ago and I don't know what is done now. Before I left, the districts around Houston had such a demand for ESL teachers that the districts offered a finder's fee to teachers who referred a certified ESL teacher who was hired. If you think that is something, you will love that the ESL teachers were paid more than the English only teachers. I have no clue if that is true today.
Again, this was in the '80's.
It was all fed stuff...not State.
The kids had to be tsted to determine their dominate language and had to be taught in that lang. The parents could request they be taught in Eng.
There was a kid named Smith who was in Sp. Ed who had siblings with 4 different last names. When it was time for him to be re-evaluated he had to be given a lang dominance test because his mother had married a Gonzales. The kid had never spoken Spanish but that is how stupid it was. Typical Gov't stuff.
You'll have to look up your own links for Perry.
All states are required to allow enrollment of the children of illegal aliens, since Plyler v. Doe
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12010798883027065807&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr
What Alabama has done is pass a law requiring their schools to report which of their students are the children of the 60,000 illegal aliens estimated to live in that State. The Federal court blocked that part of the law.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-court-alabama-detain-illegal-immigrants-14739017