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Students learn hard lesson in school budgets

Funding shortfalls squeeze educators: ‘There’s just no hope right now’

By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
updated 11:18 a.m. ET, Tues., Aug. 12, 2008

Around Valentine’s Day, parents in Cheatham County, Tenn., near Nashville, could face a problem: how to get their children to school.

There’s enough money in the 2008-09 school budget to pay for bus fuel only until February. The Cheatham County Board of Education doesn’t know what it will do after that.

“In the area where we live, those children are 12 miles from school,â€

How many illegal aliens have kids in the system?

IF WE DEPORT 40 MILLION ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIENS, JUST MAYBE YOUR SCHOOL BUDGETS WILL BE FINE.

NO MORE TAX INCREASES FOR SCHOOLS.

But bi-lingual education programs (which are always Spanish/English) just keep expanding instead of being cut back!

Originally Posted by Texas2step

But bi-lingual education programs (which are always Spanish/English) just keep expanding instead of being cut back!

The schools love those kids because they are English Language Learners and/or considered migrant children. The schools get lots more money for them.

A few years ago, before 2006, the Lee County FL school district in all its wisdom decided that hiring professional teachers as substitutes was just too expensive, so they advertised for others: those 18 years or older and a high school education, or equivalent. It was about the same time they decided to waste money on printing a booklet for parents in English, Spanish and Haitian-Creole for the purpose of helping their children with the homework. This last made no sense to me as, what if, the parents are illiterate, or don't speak English when the lessons are in English?
But they did redeem themselves somewhat, by buying a closed K-Mart property and turning it into an elementary school.

This might shine some light as to what the problem is across the board for our schools:

http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/educating_illegals.htm

Educating Illegals Costs $900 per American Child
Because illegal aliens typically earn so much less than natives, their economic contribution is much less than their numbers would suggest— and immigration enthusiasts incessantly claim.

But illegal aliens’ cost to the American taxpayer is another matter. For example, the children of illegal aliens are currently being educated at American taxpayer expense because of the Supreme Court’s disastrous 1982 Plyler vs. Doe decision. The expense of this is high and disproportionate:

An estimated 1.1 million school-aged illegal immigrants are living in the U.S. [Source: Michael Fix and Jeffrey Passel, “U.S. Immigrants—Trends and Implications for Schools,â€