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I fervently hope America's governors follow Deborah Simmons' advice ("Educating the Workforce," Op-Ed, Friday) as they "ponder, for a moment, the socioeconomic burdens if millions of illegal immigrants are granted the same public benefits as Americans..."
As a result of the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe, children may not be denied education on the basis of their immigration status. Millions of illegal aliens' children are already being educated in our schools. According to a Government Accountability Office report ("Illegal Alien Schoolchildren: Issues in Estimating State-by-State Costs"), the National Center for Education Statistics says expenditures for primary and secondary schools for the 1999-2000 school year totaled about $324 billion, with an additional $35 billion going for capital outlays. Most of these costs are borne at the state and local level, with only about 7 percent of school revenue coming from federal dollars.See the full content of this document
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Educating Illegals
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