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To: Sam who wrote (103555)	2/9/2009 9:26:49 AM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542009

The most overcrowded state has been CA. If you read my article, the overcrowding was resolved a few years back (in the aggregate). Now forecasts are for continued declines in enrollments. From 1971 to 2006, the birthrate in the US steadily declined and was below replacement rate until 2006. It went to replacement rate, only replacement rate (no growth), because of Latinos crossing the border. Once here Latinos tend to have increasingly smaller families with each generation. With white birthrates continuing below replacement and on a slight downtrend and Latino immigration and birthrates declining, this is not a prescription for building and staffing more schools. Also the continued building of religious schools, privately funded, is steadily pulling kids out of the public schools. This trend has slowed but is still on a growth path. If there was unlimited money, it would be great to have class sizes of ten per and a computer at every desk, but should we be borrowing for this? The money going to building schools and staffing or retaining teachers would, imo, be better spent to create jobs for the kids that are already here.