Warner Todd Huston – 6 Nov 2026 – Breitbart – 4:03 mins
My cmnt: This is actually quite good news. Please read the article below this one from the Lincoln Journal Star also about teachers and administrators lamenting that our tax burden for the public schools is going down because of less illegal immigrants taking up spots.
My cmnt: The LJS piece “blames” this on falling U.S. birthrates. If that is a problem to Libs then stop pushing abortion and belittling stay-at-home mothers.
K-12 teachers and school administrators are worrying about job cuts as President Donald Trump reduces migrant numbers and focuses more federal education funding on American kids.
“To stop or slow immigration really exacerbates … problems [and] communities are now confronting very painful decisions about closing schools,” Stanford University education policy economist Thomas Dee told NPR.
“It is something that hurts beyond just, like, putting your job at risk,” a teacher in the L.A. school system added. The school system spends roughly $30,000 per student to get roughly half of its students up to proficient or better results.
Public schools are dealing with fewer education dollars coming their way as President Trump fulfills his mandate to deport large numbers of illegal migrants.
A recent NPR report finds that school districts are losing budget dollars as enrollment drops. Since school budgets rise and fall based on enrollment numbers, the amount of tax dollars flowing into inner city schools is tightening as migrants self-deport or are picked up for deportation.
NPR does not state it directly, but the falling number of children of illegal migrants in our schools means that the artificial growth of school budgets and the billions of tax dollars shunted to schools to pay to educate foreigners is a bubble that is finally bursting. And unions and Democrat Ponzi city bosses are distraught over the situation.
A large part of that decline is the falling enrollment of migrant children.
“It’s really the effect of both the exodus of the existing families and stopping the inflow [of foreign migrants and children] that normally would have occurred,” economist Dee told NPR.
“The scale of decline is daunting. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the number of kids in public schools nationwide peaked in 2019 and fell by roughly 1.5 million students as of the 2024 school year,” NPR wrote.
Granted, there has been a concurrent drop in American birth rates, as well. This is also a big driver in the loss of budget dollars based on student enrollment.
“At the local level, enrollment decline may permanently reduce available resources and will significantly reshape public education systems for years to come,” says an analysis by two left-wing think tanks, Bellwether and WestEd, NPR added.
While NPR’s article laments all this, the truth is, that is how the system is supposed to work. More kids means more resources, as it should be. But the reverse is also true. And there is no reason to keep education budgets at higher levels if the districts simply do not have the number of kids needed to justify the expense. Schools should be shut down and teachers and administrations culled if there are not enough kids there to justify the costs and salaries.
However, this is why the Ponzi Democrats love the influx of illegal migrants because it artificially inflates the need for the oftentimes dubious services of the education establishment. Dubious because despite the billions of dollars thrown at our schools, scores for reading, math, science, and other metrics are cratering and our kids are increasingly graduated with little to no actual education under their belts.
According to Time magazine, U.S. student academic scores have dropped significantlyover the past decade, putting students roughly 60 percent of a school year behind in reading and 40 percent of a school year behind in math compared to a decade ago.
All this is why Democrats and unions are so much in favor of untrammeled illegal immigration.
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Lincoln Public Schools enrollment drops by nearly 700 students
- Livia Ziskey | Lincoln Journal Star – Nov 6, 2026 – LJS
Kooser Elementary School students attend an assembly in 2025. Elementary enrollment dropped at Lincoln Public Schools this school year by 426 students, driving an overall decline of 675 students across the district.KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star file photo
Lincoln Public Schools saw another year of enrollment decline, a reality that many districts across the country are facing as birth rates slow.
LPS released its official enrollment numbers for the 2026-27 school year on Friday, showing a decline of 675 students across the district for a total of 41,265 students in preschool through 12th grade.
“This drop is something we’ve kind of seen coming,” said Mike Gillotti, the associate superintendent for educational services at LPS.
He pointed to larger cohorts of students graduating and smaller class sizes coming in as the primary reason for the drop in enrollment.
Two years ago, LPS saw near-record enrollment numbers with 42,282 students in 2024-25. Peak enrollment came in 2019-20 with 42,297 students.
The district enrolled 16,949 elementary students, 9,109 middle school students and 13,249 high school students as of Oct. 1, when school districts in Nebraska are required to submit official enrollment data to the state.
In total, LPS enrollment declined by 426 students at the elementary level, 148 students at the middle school level and 232 students at the high school level. Early childhood enrollment increased by 131 students.
Gillotti said the number of English language learners fell by about 200 students. That population had been growing in LPS since the 2022-23 school year, and English language learners made up 8.7% of all students during the 2025-26 school year.
“That would indicate just a little less immigration, a little less refugee movement into the city of Lincoln,” Gillotti said.
The data shows that all eight high schools are under 2,000 students for a second year in a row. Lincoln High is the largest with 1,974 students. Though Standing Bear in southeast Lincoln saw an increase of 155 students, it remains the least populated high school at 1,091.
LPS’ senior class is the largest grade at 3,588 students, bigger than last year’s class of 3,471 seniors. The district’s kindergarten class is the smallest with 2,608 students.
Roper is Lincoln’s largest elementary school with 883 students, while Saratoga is the smallest with 203. At the middle school level, Scott has the highest enrollment with 995 students, compared with 324 at Dawes, the lowest. Roper and Scott are in southwest Lincoln, Saratoga is in south-central Lincoln, and Dawes is in northeast Lincoln.
Robinson Elementary, in northeast Lincoln, added 48 students this year. Moore Middle, in southeast Lincoln, added 54 students. Three other middle schools saw a slight increase in students, while the other eight saw drops.
As the U.S. birth rate fell to a record low in 2025, continuing a 20-year trend toward fewer children, it’s possible that school districts like LPS will continue to see overall enrollment declines.
Across the country, U.S. enrollment dropped from nearly 50.8 million K-12 students in 2019 to almost 49.4 million in 2024, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
That number is projected to drop even further to about 46.9 million students by 2031, the center’s data estimated.
But Lincoln is also an expanding city, and estimates show that 90,000 children under 18 could live in Lancaster County by 2050.
More LPS enrollment data can be viewed at https://www.lps.org/o/ae/page/home
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