Much of that comment is political in nature. Calling it palestine & colonization is disputable.
Technically the Israelites inhabited the land before the Palestinians. Such land was part of Judea & Samaria, which the romans conquered, kicked out the Israelites. In modern times the Israelites won back much of the land in a war of aggression against them.
It's akin to saying that the Native Americans who lived in their reservations were attacked by the surrounding cities. The native americans won, and in the battles managed to extended their reservations to a greater % of their historical lands before the Americans kicked them out.
THe illegal immigrant population in k-12 in California schools are majority latino/hispanic. Therefore removing the illegal immigrant population from said schooling would reduce the latino population in the school.
If latino's are scoring poorly, then removing some % of them (due to their illegal immigrant status) would raise test scores overall.
> While this is true, this is also the type of ethnic engineering that isn't acceptable in modern society in the United States. We don't remove ethnic populations in order to increase a test score number.
Hu? I never was talking about ethnic engineering. I was talking about enforcing our immigration laws.
Property taxes only make up 1/4th the school budget in CA.
Also let's do some math shall we. California has 12.3% illegal immigrant student population. Remove them and the same funds that currently exist would be funding 87.7% the current student population.
California currently spends $8,694/student. If you remove the illegal immigrants that becomes 8,694/0.877 = ~9913/student. Not great but a $1219/student gain in funds isn't shabby either. FYI california has ~6 Million k-12 students, or in other words the illegals are costing tax payers 6.66 Billion/year in k-12 education.
Now reducing our student population by 12.3% would also mean reducing the number of schools. There's likely even greater savings as not everything scales horizontally / sub-horizontally.
The majority of LA's Latino / Illegal Immigrant student body failed their standardized tests.
66% failed english language arts
76% failed math
And Latino's also had ~5% more kids failing than the average of LA's Scores. Its a fair argument that removing this population from the schools increase the % of kids who pass these tests by more than 5%.
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The percentage of LA’s Latino students who met or exceeded state academic expectations this year:
34 percent in English language arts, less than 1 percentage point higher than in 2016
24 percent in math, less than 1 percentage point higher than in 2016
The district’s overall average this year was 39.55 percent in English language arts and 29.86 in math.
The percentage of Latino students in California who met or exceeded standards this year:
26.05 percent in English language arts, the same as in 2016
16.89 percent in math, slightly lower than in 2016
The state’s overall average this year was 48.56 percent in English language arts and 37.53 percent in math.
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> And being 42nd out of 50 on K-12 education and highest poverty rate, aren't good things to lead with. Lots of opportunities to improve.
How much does that have to do with its sanctuary status & high illegal immigration numbers.
California is home to 2.3 mil illegal immigrants, and 12.3% of all k-12 students in California are illegal immigrants. Other states with that high of an illegal immigrant student demographic are Arizona, Nevada, and Texas [1]. According to US News, Nevada is #49, Arizona #43, and Texas #41 in K12 public school rnakings by state. [2].
I'd assume that illegal immigrants are generally on the poor side. The children of illegal immigrants likely speak english as second language.
Generally speaking, kids who are ESL and kids who are poor score lower on standardized tests. Now imagine both poor & esl & having to deal with stress of being an illegal immigrant. These kids have everything going against them and are likely going to score worse. Put enough of these kids in a school, and you're going to bring down the education for the non illegal immigrants. You're only as good as who you surround yourself.
Big issue is that Google's market cap is huge, the amount of money they make is massive as well. For the risk to brand to be worth it, you've got to have a huge potential to make lots of $$$. Hence why lots of projects get killed. Making 300 million a year isn't enough money to move the needle at google.
I fully believe that's why alphabet was created. Allow the `bets` to not use the google branding and name, and stealthy create new companies that produce millions of revenue, but just not billions.
Just have a SMS message texted to voters once their vote is counted with a link to a scan of their paper ballet. Would make voter fraud a bit harder as each person could validate their vote was correctly counted. If the voter doesn't get their SMS, then provide a 1800 number for them to figure out what happened. This would only stop the changing and non counting of a real voter, but does not stop fake voters from adding their vote....which would need a diff fraud protection scheme.
Dx list with 100 PiB is 2 million. Add in discounts and you’re at much less than 1 mil total