Textbook Case: Texas School District Flounders Under Biden’s Border Failure
April 10, 2023
This year, FAIR calculated that illegal immigration is costing Americans nearly $80 billion in added K-12 education expenditures. A deep dive into one rural Texas school district highlights a fiscal, academic and social collapse in the making.
Though Cleveland Independent School District (CISD), in Liberty, Texas, is 400 miles from the southern border, it has been inundated by thousands of migrant children. In the past decade, enrollment has tripled to more than 10,000, with the Hispanic student cohort — including large numbers of non-English speakers — soaring from 40 percent to 90 percent.
As President Joe Biden’s sieve-like immigration policies flood America with border crossers, CISD projects that its enrollment will double in size by 2026, with migrant children continuing to drive the increase. Per a narrow 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in 1982, Plyler v. Doe, all K-12 public schools must enroll whoever shows up on the doorstep.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2023/04/10/textbook-case-texas-school-district-flounders-under-bidens-border-failure
