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N.Va. Hit With Cost Of School Migration
washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines
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Hundreds of foreign-born families have pulled their children from Prince William County public schools and enrolled them in nearby Fairfax County, Arlington County and Alexandria since the start of the school year, imposing a new financial burden on those inner suburbs in a time of lean budgets.
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The school-to-school migration within Northern Virginia started just as Prince William began implementing rules to deny some services to illegal immigrants and require police to check the immigration status of crime suspects thought to be in the country illegally.
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Opponents of the rules say they have had a chilling effect on Prince William's once-thriving Latino community, prompting even legal immigrants to flee a hostile environment.
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"The resolution is clearly working," said Corey A. Stewart (R-At Large), chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. "It is driving down the non-English-speaking portion of the schools and saving us millions of dollars. They're going to other jurisdictions and costing them money."
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washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines
I used to live in Prince William County many moons ago. Good for them for coming up with a solution. Now I think I'll write a letter to Canyon County in Idaho and include this article! 
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