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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

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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. [/quote]

Links? I've seen several article that say the opposite (including the one cited above).

These families poured into Fairfax and you can see it in our schools as well as the Montgomery County schools. Montgomery county is much worse off because of it though. Their test scores and high school graduation rates dropped like stones. No one likes to talk about those facts though. And we are supposed to be quiet and not point these things out because their education is more important than our children's apparently according to politicians.[/quote]

You can go to the Virginia Department of Education site and check the division-wide statistics by ethnicity.

In the 2014-15 school year, after Prince William had supposedly cracked down, Fairfax had 185,563 students, 45,084 of whom were Hispanic (24.3%), and Prince William had 86,664 students, 27,356 of whom were Hispanic (31.6%).  Last year (2017-18), FCPS was 25.8% Hispanic and PWCPS was 34.1%.

Ultimately, this statistic depends more on housing affordability and birth rates than statements by politicians of either party, but since that's the case it seems like it's better to be welcoming than to be a hostile and racist.  [/quote]

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