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Kobach Suing Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

News 21 readers are by now familiar with Kris Kobach, the one-man army against illegal immigration. Kobach, who has litigated everything from Hazleton, Pa.’s defense of its immigration ordinance to a suit against San Francisco’s sanctuary law, is also fighting Kansas over a law that lets illegal immigrants who have attended state high schools to [...]

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Teacher Shortage Draws Filipino Immigrants

September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From rural Baldwin County, Ala., to suburban Prince George’s County, Md., teacher shortages are inviting an unlikely solution: hundreds of Filipino teachers, attracted by relatively high salaries, are coming to the U.S. to teach everything from math to special ed.
The Philippines has a teacher surplus, and U.S. school districts are sending representatives to the [...]

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