Study finds education gap

[Persia]

They finished two fewer years of school than peers with legal immigrant parents. The research on Los Angeles area residents shows the need to help such families become legal, the report's authors say.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-illegal-academics-20111023,0,5789070.story?track=lat-pick

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

Make Me Believe, have you tried logging out and logging back in again? Because right now you look like Persia

[Rafterman]

Perhaps we should help them return to their home countries where their level of education is more on par with their peers.

[Farmer77]

I'm not sure what the point of the article was. The education gap is purely choice. The illegal population places less emphasis on education than the general pop does. I was shocked when moving to AZ from AK and finding out about the severity of the truancy laws so of course I had to ask why.....