FWISD Being Funded for Illegals
Fort Worth ISD has taken millions of taxpayer dollars for teaching illegal immigrants.
The Department of Education has a grant program, funded to the tune of billions of dollars, which goes to schools expressly for the purpose of teaching students who don't speak English, largely illegal immigrants.
The funds flow through the Texas Education Agency (TEA), which has received half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds exclusively for this program. The TEA then distributes these funds to school districts for the purpose of providing anything from English language education to career counseling, to professional development services.
Behind Houston and Dallas, Fort Worth ISD is the #3 recipient of these taxpayer dollars in Texas. Available records suggest that FWISD has received at least $5 million in recent years from this one program.
For context, nearly 40% of FWISD students qualify for the program because they aren't proficient in the English language. No wonder almost none of high school students in FWISD read at grade level!
The TEA has many other migrant-related services with which you may not be familiar. Some of these include the Texas Migrant Interstate Program (TMIP) which encourages migrants to "reach out to their local Migrant Recruiter" to receive benefits, which include school funding, clothing, free school supplies, and summer camps.
This isn't the only TEA resource available to illegals. Another TEA website, the Texas English Learner Portal (TXEL), gives free resources and assistance to illegals who don't speak English. Resources are available to parents of illegal students, including English Language classes and career resources, and citizenship classes. In Tarrant County, both Fort Worth ISD and Catholic Charities of Fort Worth are listed as resources on the site.
Some of those programs are funded by government grants other than those we mentioned here, but we'll get into that another day. Public Information requests have already been sent in!
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