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Education | | | |
With states straining under gaping
budget shortfalls, public schools
throughout the country are facing some
of the most significant decreases in
state education funding in decades. In
some states, drastic cuts mean lay-offs
for teachers, larger class sizes, fewer
textbooks, and eliminating sports,
language programs, and after-school
activities. Nearly two-thirds of the
states have cut back or proposed
reductions in support for childcare and
early childhood programs. Some are even
shortening the school week from five
days to four. | | | |
While these massive budget deficits
cannot be attributed to any single
source, the enormous impact of
large-scale illegal immigration cannot
be ignored. The total K-12 school
expenditure for illegal immigrants costs
the states nearly $12 billion annually,
and when the children born here to
illegal aliens are added, the costs more
than double to $28.6 billion.1 | | | |
1. The population estimate is for
children enrolled in grades K-12.
However the per student expenditures
used to calculate the total costs were
for primary and secondary schools
(grades 1-12). | |
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