Citizens in the southwestern Minnesota town of Worthington have approved nearly $34 million in new borrowing to expand schools filled to overflowing in recent years by an influx of immigrants. ...
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Battle Over Immigration Rattles Community Colleges
“I assumed it was a joke, but to the whole class he said, ‘And for you, all you illegals, I’m going to have immigration waiting outside the class for you if you don’t have the stubs,’” she said. “As a teenager, straight ...
Boston schools chief resigning after lawsuit says district shared student data with immigration officials
Chang, who signed a five-year contract to run the 56,000-student district in 2015, said late Friday that he was negotiating a departure, and he left a farewell message on the district’s website that cited higher graduati ...
Immigrant tuition law debated in Kansas governor’s race
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach tweeted recently that repealing the policy of allowing some young immigrants to pay the lower tuition rates reserved for legal state residents would “stem the rising tide of tuition ...
‘Astounding ignorance of the law’: Civil rights groups slam DeVos for saying schools can report undocumented students
DeVos’s answers came during testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who was at one time undocumented, pressed the sec ...
DeVos: Schools should decide whether to report undocumented kids
“That’s a school decision. It’s a local community decision,” DeVos said during testimony before the House Education and the Workforce Committee, adding that “we have laws and we also are compassionate.” Her comments came ...
African Immigrants Find an Open Door at a Bronx College
Just as the Bronx has seen an explosion in its African population, Bronx Community College has seen its enrollment of African students climb to nearly 1,000 from 200 a decade ago. They go to the Bronx, which has one of t ...
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