Dropout rate at LAUSD's Jefferson High: 58 percent

[Kareem Muhammad]

Oscar wrote:

Race Card. Racist Whitey is OBVIOUSLY oppressing minorities to underperform, by continually outperforming them in every possible way. Hussein Obama needs to eliminate State/National Educational standards, since they are clearly Racist. A person should not need to compete with White people to get a good high paying job. Holding people back simply because they underperform on Tests, and Evaluations eliminates the wonderful opportunity of every workplace being Diverse in Culture. A person's actual abilities should NOT be a factor in their getting hired The Government realizes this, and hires based on color and ethnicity, not silly qualifications. Although, that might explain why all Local, State, and Federal Governments are financially broke, and poorly mismanaged, and morally corrupt. Hmm....I may have to rethink my logic..........

The next time you need major surgery, will you willingly choose a surgeon who's underperformed on his tests?

[Jason Devereau]

Kareem Muhammad wrote:

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The next time you need major surgery, will you willingly choose a surgeon who's underperformed on his tests?

The great thing about choosing to support our State's Democrats is that our own children HAVE NO expectation of a decent American future. Schools don't matter to parents enough to elect leaders who give a crap about our children.

What else could explain Villagairosa. His re-elect confimrs that today's L.A. parents are really nothing but sperm or egg donors.

[Chewey Gonzalez]

In these wobbling economic times, it was only a question of when public officials would turn toward illegal immigrants and ask how much of a burden they pose to taxpayers.
Nowhere is the question more sensitive than in Los Angeles County, where an estimated 1.1 million illegal immigrants reside. Even so, with the state's budget shortfall calculated at as much as $38 billion in the next 13 months and the county's at more than $400 million, it had to come.
Today, a Los Angeles County supervisor, Michael D. Antonovich, a Republican, introduced a symbolic proposal that would require illegal immigrants to obtain work permits and their employers to post bonds to pay for their health care costs.
The proposal, which would require the county to work with federal authorities to draft such legislation, was defeated without comment in a 3-to-2 vote along party lines.
His proposal was not an attack on immigrants, Mr. Antonovich said, but an effort to address two serious problems for the county: unfettered immigration and financing the $350 million the county pays to provide health care to indigent workers, who are mostly Mexican.
''We're running an H.M.O. for illegal immigrants,'' Mr. Antonovich said,''and if we keep it up, we're going to bankrupt the county.''
''This is not a backlash against immigrants,'' he added.''This is also a way to give those people some legitimacy, to take them out of the dark, give them legal protections and tax them for the services they use.''
Immigration lawyers said Mr. Antonovich's proposal was flawed, because only Congress has the ability to make immigration law. They cited Proposition 187, the statewide referendum that voters approved in 1994 barring illegal immigrants and their children from receiving public money. A federal court ruled the proposition unconstitutional because it conflicted with Congressional authority in immigration law.
These lawyers also said Mr. Antonovich's proposal would do nothing to address the situation of millions of immigrants without valid working papers who have settled and made new lives in the United States.
''The problem with proposals like Antonovich's are that they are effectively guest worker programs,'' said Thomas A. Saenz, vice president of litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.''You're here for a short period of time and you're required to leave. At a certain point, people have earned the right to stay here with their families.''
The county's health system is the largest safety net for the uninsured in the nation, and more than 2.5 million people receive treatment from it every year. It is estimated by county health officials that about 800,000 of those are illegal immigrants.
State law requires that counties provide medical care for uninsured people, but the financial obligation has proved so burdensome that the county shut 16 clinics last year.
Earlier this month, a federal judge barred the county from closing a rehabilitation hospital and from cutting 100 beds at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, which would have saved an estimated $75 million in the first year alone. The judge ruled that such cutbacks would create dangerous delays in medical treatment and contribute to the spread of communicable diseases.
Things have gotten so dire, county officials are threatening to stop accepting the transfer of uninsured or indigent patients from private hospitals, a practice that lets the private hospitals avoid paying for the patients' care.
Illegal immigrants cost in other areas, officials and economists say, including education and law enforcement. The state requires that every child age 6 to 18 attend school, regardless of residency status. The number of undocumented children in the public school system is impossible to determine, though, since it is illegal for officials to collect information on immigration status.

[Chewey Gonzalez]

And the Los Angeles County sheriff, Lee Baca, has had to close facilities and release nonviolent offenders from jail early to close a two-year,$170 million budget gap. A large part of that deficit, the sheriff said, comes from housing illegal immigrants who make up a quarter of the county's inmate population.
''The feds keep dreaming about controlling the borders,'' Sheriff Baca said.''But is it a reality or a myth? It doesn't look like a reality and the local taxpayer suffers.''
Whether immigrants cost citizens money remains a point of debate. A 1997 study by the National Academy of Sciences -- regarded by economists as the most comprehensive, if flawed, review of the subject -- concluded that immigrants, over their lifetimes, provide an economic benefit to the country in terms of taxes versus expenditures.
But it also found that the fiscal impact of an immigrant with less than a high school education drains the economy of $13,000 over his lifetime, and most illegal immigrants tend to fall into this category.

[Joe Garcia]

The Illegals are very lucky that they choose the deteriorating piece of pelosi that is Villar's Los Angeles. Things aren't going so well for Illegals in the 49 proud American States.