Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, November 15, 2010 7:01:36 PM
The California Supreme Court says that our laws require illegal aliens to get in-state (lower) tuition rates for state schools, while a legal immigrant or naturalized citizen who has lived in Arizona since age 1 does not. Maura Dolan
reports at this LATimes.com blog.
The California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that illegal [aliens] may continue to be eligible for in-state tuition rates at the state's colleges and universities rather than pay the higher rates charged to those who live out of state.
Yet another reason we need separation of state and school.
In a ruling written by Justice Ming W. Chin, one of the panel's more conservative members, the state high court said a California law that guarantees the lower tuition for students who attend California high schools for at least three years and graduate does not conflict with a federal prohibition on giving illegal [aliens] educational benefits based on residency.
Let's change that law. Privatize the schools. Let private institutions, nonprofits, businesses or anyone else who is interested take them over, or shut them down and sell the property.
Meanwhile, Larry Gordon
reports in the Los Angeles Times print edition that University of California recruitment is going after out-of-state students, who pay more. How does that look to someone who has paid their taxes in California for twenty years and their kids are trying to get into a UC campus?