Swedish school performance hamstrung by immigration

AFP reports:

The failure of immigrant students to catch up with their peers in Sweden is a key factor in the country's overall decline in educational achievement and test scores, the Education Agency said Monday.

The percentage of immigrant children in Sweden's school population jumped from three percent in 2006 to eight percent in 2015.

At the same time, a drop in academic performance has led to an increase in the percentage of students who did not qualify for upper secondary school from 10 percent in 2006 to more than 14 percent 2015, according to the report entitled "The Importance of Immigration for School Results."

The agency estimates that up to 85 percent of this performance phenomenon was due to immigrant students arriving in Sweden at an older age and unable to catch up with Swedes of the same age.

No real surprise here. No word yet on this story from open borders advocate Hillary Clinton.