PHOENIX — The state Department of Education is job upon a Ajo Unified School District to lapse .2 million of state funding, observant a district illegally supposing giveaway preparation to Mexican students.
State schools Superintendent Tom Horne expelled review commentary which denote a district illegally enrolled non-Arizona proprietor students during a sum price of scarcely .2 million from mercantile years 2007, 2008 as well as 2009.
"The emanate here is not citizenship or documentation, though residency," Horne stated. "In this case, 105 students were claiming to live in Arizona, when in actuality they reside in Mexico."
Horne pronounced young kids cranky a limit every day as well as take buses to a open schools in Ajo where they have been prepared during a responsibility of Arizona taxpayers.
Horne pronounced a auditors dynamic which students were claiming residency in uninhabitable trailers, empty RV spaces as well as an deserted motel in Lukeville.
"This use contingency stop as well as we intend to ask which a district reinstate a income to a taxpayers," Horne said.
The district has thirty days to interest a commentary of a review to a Arizona State Office of Administrative Hearings.
http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Horne-seeks-12-million-from-Ajo-school-district-for-enrolling-students-from-Mexico-92785904.html
$1.2 loss that could have helped our own teachers and students in a cash strapped state. Disgusting
I have no doubt that this kind of fraud is commonplace along the border and continues. And I am certain some inside school district officials played a part in sneaking in these non-residents across as well. (No one noticed 105 children crossing the border to catch school buses in Arizona and didn’t alert the superintendent?) The only disappointment in the article is that it doesn’t state how long this has been going on.
An investigative team should be deployed to ferret out more corruption in other school districts like this near the Arizona-Mexican border. They’re sure to find others.
Thanks for the link!!!
Seeing as there are Mexican Arizonian tax payers….
My suspicions of you are confirmed by your own words.
hell no. make mexico pay for it
no, i think our schools should only allow those who can prove they are here legally. this is why America has fallen so behind on education. over crowded classrooms and the majority of the teachers time focused on trying to translate or simply communicate with these non english, illegal students, and our kids lose out!
I’m tired of mexico getting US funds no matter what the situation is. This makes our country damned near poor as a 3rd world country.
WHat happens if our country gets to be as bad as mexico for economy then where do the mexicans go?
I don’t mind mexicans just hate the idea that they work here and send money there.
Looks like some illegal took your seat in School to "Should Mexicans educated" LMFAO!!!!