Should Public Schools Be Required to Report Illegal Aliens?
No where is the phrase “citizen” mentioned in describing equal educational opportunities because the law states that any resident, legal or not, should have the opportunity to receive an education. 1703. Denial of equal educational opportunity prohibited No State shall deny equal educational opportunity to an individual on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, by – * (a) the deliberate segregation by an educational agency of students on the basis of race, color, or national origin among or within schools; * (b) the failure of an educational agency which has formerly practiced such deliberate segregation to take affirmative steps, consistent with part 4 of this subchapter, to remove the vestiges of a dual school system; * (c) the assignment by an educational agency of a student to a school, other than the one closest to his or her place of residence within the school district in which he or she resides, if the assignment results in a greater degree of segregation o