Can International Students Save U.S. Public Schools?

By Elizabeth Weiss. On a frigid Thursday evening in February, more than two hundred and fifty residents of Valparaiso, Indiana, gathered for a school-board meeting in the cafeteria of Benjamin Franklin Middle School. The meeting was supposed to be about the search for a new superintendent, but many of the attendees had another purpose: to protest the school board’s preliminary approval of a proposal by a private company, Lumenus USA, to enroll up to thirty tuition-paying foreign students at the public high school. More...