Public schools woo foreign students to boost ranks

[unionmom]

MILLINOCKET, Maine – Northern Maine is 7,000 miles and a world away from China, but that's not stopping a school superintendent from recruiting Chinese students to attend public high school in this remote mill town.

Faced with declining enrollments and shrinking revenues, public school districts from Maine to California are seeking out students from overseas, particularly China, to attend their high schools...

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[Vaguesondes]

I'm not sure that that matters, at least not from the point of view of the host country, if everyone plays by the rules. However, here in the UK at least, there are problems when people come from overseas to study (not so much in high schools as in tertiary institutions of other colleges of further education).

One is that many manage to contrive some means to stay on in the country after they should have left: some illegally, of course, but mostly through finding loopholes in the system. I'm not opposed to immigration as such, but I don't like immigration by the back door, whereby people seem to manage to circumvent the ordinary channels.

The other problem concerns students enrolling in more-or-less bogus colleges, particularly English-language schools. This gives the students entrée into the country, even though they may never (or rarely) attend any sort of class.

A separate though similar problem arises with bogus students at bone-fide institutions, who, through not fault of the college, enrol but then disappear without attending classes.

Do these sorts of problems occur in the US?