Municipal school systems around the country are gearing up to absorb
tens of thousands of children who arrived illegally from Central America
for the new school year, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The influx, mostly from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, will
stress the resources of schools from large metropolitan areas to small
towns from California to New York. A minimum of 37,000 children who have
been placed with sponsors as of July 31 are eligible to attend public
school, according to the Journal. Among the systems expected to be most heavily impacted are Texas, where
over 5,000 illegal migrant pupils will be showing up for school as well
as New York and California, which will each get about 4,000 arrivals,
the Journal reported.
Many will come with psychological scars requiring trauma counseling.
Almost all will need remedial help in learning English. Every single one
will have access to subsidized nutritional programs.
Public schools are obligated by the federal government to enroll the
children regardless of their immigration status. Alberto Carvalho of
Miami-Dade County Public Schools said, "We have both a legal and moral
obligation to teach these kids," the Journal reported.
Superintendent James Meza of Louisiana's Jefferson Parish Public School
System said, "I don't think we can handle it without hiring additional
personnel." Some schools put the added cost at $2,000 per pupil...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
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