California's Democratic Law Makers Introduce 10 Bills to Expand Benefits For Illegal Immigrants

The Democratic Legislators just introduced 10 new bills that will provide more entitlements for illegal immigrants. The question facing taxpayers: Do taxpayers want to continue to increase taxes to pay for entitlements that will not benefit a single legal resident especially if money to pay for those entitlements comes from California’s public education system?

• SB 4, by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens ““ Expands health care coverage for illegal immigrants by enrolling some in MediCal and offering unsubsidized plans through the Covered California exchange to others.

• SB 10, by Lara ““ Establishes the California Office of New Americans to help guide immigrants through confusing bureaucracies.

• SB 600, by Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento ““ Expands civil rights protections for illegal immigrants by making it unlawful for businesses to discriminate against them.

• SB 674, by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego ““ Ensures all immigrant victims of crimes are offered assistance applying for special federal visas.

• AB 60, by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego ““ Protects illegal immigrants from attorneys who demand payments for services related to pending legislation.

• AB 622, by Assemblyman Roger Hernandez, D-West Covina ““ Strengthens state Labor Code protections for all workers by limiting misuse of E-Verify, a federal program designed to prevent the undocumented from gaining employment.

• AB 899, by Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael ““ Protects immigrant children’s records from unauthorized disclosure to federal immigration authorities

• AB 900, by Levine ““ Aligns state law with federal law, allowing the maximum number of youth to receive humanitarian relief through special visas.

• AB 1343, by Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, D-Richmond ““ Helps illegal immigrants avoid detention and deportation by federal immigration authorities.

• AB 1352, by Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton ““ Prevents immigrants who complete drug rehabilitation and other court-ordered programs from being detained or deported.

• The Money to fund these very expensive programs into perpetuity is coming out of the our children’s education funding.

California’s new funding law is intentionally designed to underfund wealthy suburban school districts.

As part of the 2013-14 Budget, the State of California enacted a new system for funding education called the “Local Control Funding Formula”. The formula replaces revenue limits and most categorical programs with a universal “Base Grant”, and then provides significantly more funding for English learners and low-income students.

The Intent of the law is to fund Districts with a:

• “Base Grant”: the minimum amount needed to provide every student in the State with a basic education.

• “Supplemental Grant”: provides additional funding to Districts with a higher percentage of students that are English Language Learners, Receiving Free and Reduced Lunch, or are in Foster Care.

• “Concentration Grant” provides even greater funding to Districts in which over 55% of their students are English Language Learners, Receiving Free and Reduced Lunch, or are in Foster Care.

Districts with low percentages of English Language Learners and poor are being funding almost entirely by the Base Grant. Because the State has set the Base Grant so low, the result is that wealthy suburban school districts are not receiving sufficient funding to provide their students with their constitutionally mandated right to a free and adequate public education. Instead the State of California is withholding money that should go to wealthy suburban school districts, and using those funds to start new entitlement programs for illegal immigrants such as Driver Licenses for people who are not in the county legally, and other pet projects such as High Speed Rail.

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA STEALS $200 MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR FROM STUDENTS IN THE CAPISTRANO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Under the Local Control Funding Formula, total Per Pupil Funding in the Capistrano Unified School District was $6,773 in 2012-13 and is currently $7,002 per student with the expectation that funding will grow to $8,500 by 2021. To put that number into perspective CUSD is receiving $2,499 per student less then California’s current average per pupil spending of $9,501 and $4,224 per student less than the current national average of $11,226.

There needs to be a discussion about the priorities of our elected leaders. Parents who would like to have the public education system they were promised, need to send a strong message to our elected leaders... the rights of taxpayers to have a free and adequate public education system must take precedence over the creation of new entitlement programs for people who are not legally entitled to be in this country.

California’s new education funding law is intentionally designed to underfund wealthy suburban school districts. The law deprives every student (irrespective of their personal wealth, race or ethnicity) in the Capistrano Unified School District of an adequate education.

Send a strong message to our elected representatives:

No new entitlement programs for illegal immigrants, until our students receive the education they are mandated to receive by the California Constitution.

For Documentation See: http://disclosurecusd.blogspot.com/2014/11/re-research-brief-toward-grand-vision.html

and http://disclosurecusd.blogspot.com/2015/02/basis-for-law-suit-in-federal-court.html