EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Foundation Calls for End to ‘Free Education for Illegal Alien K-12 Students’

Every State Should Challenge Plyler v. Doe: Time to End Free Education for Illegal Alien K–12 Students

In 2025, six states introduced legislation or a rule concerning illegal alien K–12 students in public schools. The measures range from collecting immigration status and reporting the data to state officials to charging tuition for such students attending public schools. This is an unsurprising and appropriate state response to the large numbers of inadmissible aliens resettled in their communities without their consent, agreement, or permission …

EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Foundation Calls for End to ‘Free Education for Illegal Alien K-12 Students’

Children should not receive free public education unless they are lawfully present in the U.S., a new Heritage Foundation report contends.