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Monday, April 28, 2008

Attrition Just Keeps Working [Mark Krikorian]

In the WaPo today:

Hundreds of foreign-born families have pulled their children from Prince William County public schools and enrolled them in nearby Fairfax County, Arlington County and Alexandria since the start of the school year, imposing a new financial burden on those inner suburbs in a time of lean budgets.

The school-to-school migration within Northern Virginia started just as Prince William began implementing rules to deny some services to illegal immigrants and require police to check the immigration status of crime suspects thought to be in the country illegally.

04/28 03:51 PM

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Link to entire WaPo story (note the way the reporter frames the story):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 32_pf.html