Is our land of opportunity turning into a dead end for Hispanic students who graduate high school college-ready but lack a pathway to legalize their citizenship status?
On March 22 Connect for Kids hosted a Talktime Live! online chat on the Dream Act [1], with experts on education issues faced by immigrants and a student who will speak from experience.
The emotional storm over illegal immigration is threatening passage of the Dream Act, a federal proposal that would provide a mechanism allowing illegal-immigrant graduates to become citizens and allow states to offer them in-state tuition.
Meanwhile, the Hispanic College Fund [3] has announced that scholarship applications are due April 15, 2006.