Chairman. I rise In strong opposition to the amendment offered by the gentleman from California requiring the reporting of the residency/citizenship status of children and their parents by school districts before receiving title I funds. This new bureaucratic requirement and unfunded mandate would. in effect deputize our schools and educational professionals into service for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. We cannot afford to spend the already scarce resources for education on the enforcement of Immigration law. Ive been an educator for most of my life and I can tell you from personal experience that school personnel do not need another Federal mandate taking them away from their primary duty of teaching our children. particularly one which in effect makes them law enforcers. But this amendment not only requires that the legal status of each student be assessed. it also requires a report on the status of their parents.
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