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...would have got honors at her graduation from Marlborough High School in Marlborough, Mass., last month, except for a slip on her Algebra II final. That she would go to the Massachusetts College of Art this fall, but her restaurant-worker parents can't pay the nearly $18,000 tuition. And that the tuition would cost just $6,400 if state legislators approved a bill to allow students like her, an illegal immigrant, to pay in-state rates at Massachusetts' public colleges and universities...
Pamela, who arrived with her family from Chile in 2000 and does not wish to reveal her real name, is one of an estimated 50,000 to 65,000 illegal immigrants who got diplomas from U.S. high schools this spring. They graduated into a furor over in-state tuition, one of the fiercest debates over immigration policy today. Illegal aliens can qualify for in-state tuition rates in nine states, including Texas, Kansas and California. But a lawsuit challenging Kansas' law and the failure of legislatures to approve similar policies in 18 other states this year reflect widespread unease about...
...under then-President Charles Chauncy to fulfill a goal of Harvard’s Charter of 1650, which called for “the education of the English & Indian Youth of this Country in knowledge and godliness.” Students at the Indian College were not charged tuition and were given free lodging...
...money should be spent on federal vouchers that would enable students to apply for transfer to alternative, and presumably better, schools. Last week Bennett submitted to Congress a bill that would provide students with such vouchers, worth an average of $600, which could be applied toward remedial instruction or tuition at another school--public, private or parochial. Said Bennett: "It would promote a healthy rivalry among schools . . . and would allow parents to choose the program that best meets the needs of their children...
...nothing if not controversial. Miriam Rosenberg, government-relations specialist for the National Parent Teacher Association, called Bennett's proposal an "inappropriate and possibly unconstitutional transfer of public tax dollars to private and especially private religious schools." Others argued that $600 would not go far toward private day-school tuition or even the pupil cost in an upscale suburban school (typically...