They say that the law instills such fear in immigrant families with schoolchildren, leading predictably to such erratic attendance figures, that it belies any claim that the state is seriously attempting an accurate measurement.
King accused the school districts of teaching English to the immigrant parents of schoolchildren in violation of a Georgia law that says anyone receiving public benefits, including adult education classes, must document that they are in the country legally.
"Our New York," he informed the audience — mainly politicians and community leaders — consists of "eight million citizens, three million immigrants, 1.1 million schoolchildren, and seventeen hundred beautiful parks".
To imagine that libraries could remain as they were half a century ago would entail wishing away the Web and the demands of old people, immigrants, the unemployed, schoolchildren and parents who want constructive places to keep their young children occupied at a time when public resources and political good will are in increasingly short supply.
By the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898 many New York newsies were schoolchildren from immigrant and working-class families.
Though New Jersey leant Republican in presidential races from the 1940s to the 1980s, its demography is now thought to give Democrats a huge advantage: one-third of its schoolchildren have immigrant parents.Mr Christie won them over in part by appearing to put party politics aside.
McClung continued to fight for reform on various fronts, including medical and dental care for schoolchildren, European immigrants' acceptance into Canada during the second world war, property rights for women and divorce law equality.
The lack of basic language skills means more schoolchildren with an immigrant background do not complete basic secondary education.
It will be a crossroads for more than 20,000 schoolchildren, many from immigrant families, whom the museum serves as the region's most active arts educator outside the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, as well as the international art world, which descends yearly on the city for the Art Basel show in Miami Beach, beginning in tandem with the museum's opening.
We expect anybody who is using the air conditioning in this area to turn it off right now and suffer the heat of their shitty shop while thousands of truant schoolchildren, drug addicts, immigrants and tourists tread on your feet and ask you stupid questions in pidgin English.
