The policy research group Texas 2036 analyzed the state’s enrollment data and projected that about 100,000 fewer students would attend public schools by the end of the current decade.
Hispanic students accounted for 81% of this school year’s enrollment drop. Over the past year, federal and state leaders increased anti-immigration rhetoric, in some cases detaining Texas students and prompting fear across communities.
Texas educates 5.5 million public school students, 53% of whom are Hispanic, 24% are white and 13% are Black.
This is what conservatives want for the entire country, by the way
Hence why they abolished the Department of Education in 2025; and why Trump’s 2017 pick for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is known for her support for school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools. She also had that really awkward testimony with Senator Chris Murphy (representing Newtown) about how schools might need guns to protect kids from “grizzly [bears]”.