Anonymous (not verified) 2007-02-09 07:28
There's a large percent of Hispanic students who were illegal in our schools in Dallas ISD.
The Dual-Language program is costing taxpayers lots of money. The price ticket goes up when you including the extra bonus ($5000) the teachers who serves this group of largely illegal group.
This doesn't include what Dallas ISD spent for overseas recruiting.
Then you have have to count the cost of hiring of top Hispanic administrators to run programs.
All this takes resources away from students who are legal. I know that all student whether illegal or not are granted free education, but something is wrong when the illegals are getting a better education.
[Ed Note: I'm not willing to cede that illegals are getting a better education. If we keep going the way we are, we're setting another generation of Hispanic kids up for failure. But that, as I say, is another story.]