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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think differentiation is the key. The floor needs to be higher. But then there should be no bar on acceleration.

Achievement gap is not the issue. The real issue is that the lower performing students need to be brought up to a minimum functional level.and all kids need to  be educated to their full capacity.

Immigrants without legal standing need to pay a fee for getting their kids educated. [/quote]

Plyler v. Doe (US Supreme Court - 1982) - Held: A Texas statute which withholds from local school districts any state funds for the education of children who were not "legally admitted" into the United States, and which authorizes local school districts to deny enrollment to such children, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Read more here : https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/457/202

Denying illegal aliens children acces to public education or trying to charge them is unconstitutional.  Not gonna happen.

And, despite what Betsey DeVos seems to think, calling ICE on illegal alien students is also illegal.  See -- [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/05/23/astounding-ignorance-of-the-law-civil-rights-groups-slam-devos-for-saying-schools-can-report-undocumented-students/?utm_term=.38dd0fcda34a[/url]

PP, your ignorance of the law is also astounding.[/quote]

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