Tracking The Money Trail Of Illegal Aliens In School
Alternate Headline: Crash-and-Burn Bill of the Week. Which doesn’t necessarily make it a bad one, but I suspect Rep. Dale Folwell, a Forsyth Republican, is doomed to epic failure with proposed legislation that would require principals to keep track of illegal immigrants in their schools, for the sole purpose of fiscal analysis. The blowback from the pro-amnesty crowd, not to mention the give-schools-more-money crowd, stands to be substantial. This from the AP via the Wilmington StarNews:
None of the nine people who spoke Tuesday were in favor of the legislation, including Ann McColl, a representative for the State Board of Education, who said the bill would risk putting school districts in the position of having to violate federal law.
“It truly is the role of educators to educate whoever comes through the door,” she said.
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all children are entitled to a public education, including children who are in the U.S. illegally. Earlier this month, the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent out a letter warning school districts not to let enrollment policies lead to the exclusion of students based on their immigration status.
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Folwell’s bill would require principals to ask the parents of new students to say whether the child is a U.S. citizen, and if not, to give the student’s immigration status. The language of the bill says the information will only be used for fiscal analysis, and not to deny admission to any student. The bill would also require parents to provide immunization records for their children.
“This is a very serious problem,” Folwell said. “We must get our arms around the unfunded mandate of illegal immigration in this state.”
Crazy talk, to be certain; why the next thing you know, some nut-job representative will be proposing legislation to require schools to accurately document and track fraud rates in their free- and reduced-price lunch programs.
Can’t have that, can we.
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