Texas says it won't fund education for children in shelters

[TexasTowelie]

By Ted Armus, Texas Tribune


Texas’ top education officials told school district administrators Friday that they cannot use state funding to provide schooling for children housed in migrant shelters.

The announcement — issued in a letter sent to all school superintendents statewide — has raised concerns for both shelters and school districts, whose leaders say it highlights a broader pattern of push-and-pull between the state and federal government over regulating shelters.

Leo Lopez, the Texas Education Agency’s associate administrator for school funding, said in the letter that according to state law, Texas public schools can only fund education in shelters — where children are held by federal agencies — through external sources like tuition.

DeEtta Culbertson, a spokesperson for the agency, said in a statement that the responsibility of educating children in shelters “remains solely with the federal government.”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/08/31/texas-education-agency-children-migrant-shelters/

[Me.]

1. Seriously Mr. Lopez?

[Hortensis]

2. Wow. But this is happening wherever the Trump admin

is arresting and holding immigrants. Local and state governments undoubtedly have various motivations, but not necessarily bigotry and callousness. Or budget issues, though who pays is huge, of course. But many governments around the nation are unwilling to participate in these federal atrocities and also withhold assistance with the intent of making it more difficult for the feds.

Moral rocks and hard places.