History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
State Dream Acts offer important opportunities to undocumented students
- 09-08-2011
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Blog by Roberto G. Gonzales/Huffington Post
As thousands of undocumented immigrant students in California and Illinois enter and return to college this fall, they will have new hope about their futures because of legislation providing them access to privately-funded college tuition assistance passed earlier this summer in both states. While these state measures do not guarantee a pathway to legalization for their recipients, they do help to address financial needs for higher education -- presently, while more than 65 percent of all American students receive some form of financial aid, undocumented immigrant students are ineligible for federal or state financial assistance. Nevertheless, many ask, why prepare these young people for futures they cannot legally attain. I recently completed a study, published in the current issue of the American Sociological Review, based on nearly 5 years of research on the adult experiences of undocumented youngsters who have lived in the United States since childhood. The findings are sobering. (more...)
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