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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is DEI & Undocumented Student Support Worth $714M? Trump Admin Pulling Federal Funding, FCPS Wants You to Pay.
 
With FCPS staring at a $292.7 million budget shortfall, it's time we talk dollars and sense.

DEI Spending: [b]Our Chief Equity Office has 56 full-time positions, costing about $5.76 million annually.[/b]

Undocumented Student Support: FCPS educates over 38,000 ESOL students, with estimates suggesting 75% are children of undocumented immigrants. [b]At $19,795 per student, plus $4,643 for ESOL services, that's roughly $708 million each year.[/b]

Combined Cost: Including DEI spending, the total annual expenditure is approximately $714 million.

Your Share: Fairfax County has about 407,000 households. Dividing $714 million among them means each household would need to contribute an extra $1,754 annually.

With the Trump administration pulling federal funding due to DEI and undocumented student support, Fairfax County already plans to request funding to maintain these programs as-is, essentially deciding for you. Do you support this decision amid increasing assessments and talks of raising assessment rates?
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Are people even asked what they support? Obviously vast majority don't want to support DEI if they only know it's coming out of their pocket and they aren't rolling in dough to the point where it's pennies for them.

What exactly does DEI do?  What are the jobs these people doing?
With the spending per each student it's a bit misleading because it's more about influx of students (with the available spots that must have already been allocated) then it is about them being ESL, because this is a total cost of education, not just ESL education.   Every new non-illegal immigrant school-child moving into the area would contribute to this cost.[/quote]

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