million because of immigration. Without school age immigrants about two hundred and fifty thousand a year an the children of immigrants about seven hundred and twenty five thousand a year school enrollment would not be rising at all.In Miami in nineteen ninety-five foreign students streamed into the public school system at a rate of one hundred twenty a day. In nineteen ninety-five New York City had to create a special high school in Queens just for the children of immigrants. In San Francisco where one in every three public school students is in a limited English program a separate high school had to be created in order to accommodateNationwide the number of students with limited English has doubled to three and a half million according to the United States department of education.According to Kenji Hakuta a Stanford education professor “it’s a sad situation for schools right now. We have extremely scarce resources. We have people fighting over breadcrumbs. We have groups with equally strong and important needs for which society isn’t willing to provide. When the stakes are like this the fight only gets more and more vicious”.California’s funding for limited English students has steadily increased to three hundred and nineteen million today from one hundred and eighty million in nineteen eighty-six. Funding for low-income students decreased to sixty four million from ninety three million while the number of low-income students grew to almost two million from one million.Much of our scarce education resources are being used to educate immigrants and with immigration reform and lower levels of immigration we would have more resources to devote to the education of American children.Immigration and education has become a heated policy issue because of the proposal to deny taxpayer-financed education to illegal alien children. This provision first surfaced in California’s proposition one eighty-...
