[Edling] The Guarantee of Public Education for Students Regardless of Their Immigration Status

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

The Guarantee of Public Education for Students Regardless of Their
Immigration Status

In 1975, the Texas Legislature passed a statute withholding state education
funding from school districts that enrolled children who had not been
“legally admitted” to the US. Two years later, the Tyler Independent School
District went further, imposing a $1,000 annual tuition charge on
undocumented students to compensate the state for expenses (Olivas, 2012).
Mexican farmworkers*—*people who picked crops and kept the regional economy
running*—*were told their children could not attend school without paying a
fee that was simply out of their reach... *Plyler *prohibits not only
outright exclusion but also any indirect practice that discourages families
from enrolling their children, such as requiring Social Security numbers,
sharing information about immigration status with enforcement agencies, and
allowing immigration authorities to conduct enforcement activities on or
near school campuses (American Immigration Council, 2016).

Full text:
https://www.cal.org/news/new-oped-hanging-the-rights-of-immigrant-students-on-the-line-language-magazine/
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