Trump DOJ Sues State Giving Illegal Immigrants Massive In-State Tuition Breaks
The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit accusing Virginia of unlawfully granting illegal aliens in-state resident discounts on college tuition.
The state’s education code classifies illegal immigrants as Virginia residents, qualifying them for reduced in-state tuition costs, the lawsuit claims.
This policy, therefore, allows illegal immigrants to access benefits not available to most other Americans, making it “not only wrong but illegal,” the DOJ stated.
“Federal law prohibits States from providing aliens who are not lawfully present in the United States with any postsecondary education benefit that is denied to U.S. citizens,” the court documents read. Click here to read more.
No Kids, No School Tax? GOP Lawmakers Float Property Tax Overhaul
LANSING, Mich. - A group of Michigan House Republicans is reviving a long-running debate over who should pay for public education, and who shouldn’t.
Legislation introduced this month by seven GOP lawmakers would gradually remove school-related property taxes for homeowners without children enrolled in public schools.
“It’s fundamentally unjust to force people, including seniors, empty-nesters, those who pay for private school, and those without children, to subsidize a government education system they do not use,” Rep. Steve Carra (R-Three Rivers) told The Detroit News. Click here to read more.
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Unearthed Surveillance Video Shows How Parents Allegedly Helped Minnesota Daycare Centers with Fraud Scheme
Unearthed surveillance footage from 2015 reportedly exposes how parents have participated in fraud schemes with Minnesota daycare centers. Video shows parents dropping their children off at a facility and coming back to retrieve them minutes later. Another clip shows parents being handed envelopes containing what is believed to be “kickback payments” for their involvement in the scheme.
“In order for the scheme to work, the daycare centers need to sign up low-income families that qualify for child care assistance funding,” a Fox 9 journalist said in an unearthed video reporting the fraud scheme in 2018. Click here to read more.
Chicago Public School staff jet-sets overseas on tax dollars
Since 2019, Chicago Public Schools staff spent $23.6 million in taxpayer money on excessive travel, according to a report by the district’s Office of Inspector General.
Luxurious vacations, overseas travel and spas veiled as “professional development” were allowed because of “lax, vague, inadequate and unenforced Chicago Public Schools travel rules, training and procedures.” Some occurred without approval.
For example, a single travel agency provided staff from eight schools with overseas trips of “questionable value even though it did not have a contract to offer travel services to CPS.”
Those “eight schools used more than $142,000 in CPS funds to pay a vendor for 15 staff trips to Finland, Estonia, Egypt and South Africa for professional development and school visits.” Click here to read more.
As New York pursues climate objectives, conservationists raise alarm about solar project’s impact
When New York passed its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in 2019, it committed itself to one of the most ambitious emissions reduction targets in the nation — 40% reduction from 1990 levels by 2040 and 85% reduction by 2050.
Among the act’s mandates is that all electricity generation in the state will be zero-emissions by 2040. That means the state will need to build many wind and solar farms to replace natural gas-fired generation, which made up nearly half of New York’s generating capacity in 2023.
Wind and solar power face a number of economic and regulatory challenges, but the Sabine Center for Climate Change Law, which advocates for the wind and solar industry, has been identifying local opposition as the primary impediment to the rapid buildout of renewable energy since it began studying the issue in 2021.
