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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting free program

The Immigrant Family Reunification Program (IFRP) is an effort by Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) to identify immigrant students going through family reunification, and to invite their parents to participate in parenting education classes and take advantage of free resources such as Families Reunite (also in Spanish), a 6-hour curriculum for parents reunifying with their children. IFRP also offers a professional development workshop Immigrant Family Reunification:  Promoting Student Academic Engagement and resources for schools.

One-fifth of the nation's children are growing up in immigrant homes. The 2010 Census data reveals that 13% of the U.S. population is foreign born, a 20% increase since 2000. At the end of 2014, the Department of Homeland Security estimated that more than 90,000 unaccompanied minors could enter the US. As of June 2014, nearly 6,000 of those children arrived in Fairfax County.

http://www.fcps.edu/cco/fam/reunification.shtml[/quote]

THIS should be cut from the budget.[/quote]

These are human beings, people! This are children who are in pain. Children who have emotional difficulties don't learn (making life harder for teachers), then they end up doing crimes. Paying to help these children NOW is so much cheaper than waiting.[/quote]

Spouting platitudes about children and human beings and rights doesn't make money appear out of thin air. We can make declaratory statements and say that all children of the world who currently live in developing hell holes have a right to a Fairfax County education, but that just WOULDN'T EFFING WORK BY THE PROPERTIES OF THE MONEY AND SPACE THAT WE HAVE!

It is disgusting that the School Board is sending out threatening letters about a budget shortfall and tiptoeing lightly around REAL POSSIBLE REASONS why we may be short money.

I live in a high FARMS area and I am disgusted when I see 2-3 buses dropping off children at apartment complexes, because the school board is KNOWINGLY UNDERCOUNTING how many children apartments yield. They know DAMN WELL that they need to adjust their yield formula for apartment complexes on this side of the county, and they are not. [/quote]

The School Board is not knowingly undercounting these kids, but instead pushing the Facilities people to develop better models.  Some apartments yield relatively few kids, others yield many.  The School Board would prefer greater proffers from developers on your side of the county and higher projections of students coming from those complexes.  The pushback is from the BOS and the developers.  This is all on the politicians - Obama, Connelly, Bulova, Gross, etc.  The educators are left to deal with the aftermath.

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