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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not at all surprised.  Once Prince William pushed out illegal immigrants (and their children), they came to Fairfax and Montgomery. [/quote]

NP. I'm a liberal, but I'm afraid this is largely correct, though some smaller portion of the increase is probably due to the widening economic inequality after the financial crisis.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-fairfax-county-kindergarten-classes-school-systems-future-comes-into-focus/2014/06/28/1ced10d2-f25e-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4718b2ae0fef
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School officials said there is evidence that some immigrant families moved to Fairfax after Prince William’s law took effect; the Fairfax school system experienced an increase of 14,000 Hispanic students between 2008 and 2014.
“People were driven out of Prince William by the intolerance shown in that film,” Velkoff said. “In Fairfax, our feeling is we welcome everybody here with open arms. I’m happy to be a magnet for people who want to live in a tolerant society.”[/i]

14,000 represents about 7-8% of FCPS enrollment in the earlier part of this decade. If these students are massively concentrated at a few schools, that multiplies the impact.

And during the same 2008-14 period, the Hispanic enrollment in Prince William, which was well under 1/2 the size of FCPS, increased by almost 10,000 students, a faster rate of growth than in Fairfax.

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