A college’s stand for hopes and dreams

This editorial shows how important it is to educate these immigrants who are qualified and have gone through school in the area. Everyone benefits. - - Donna Poisl

Editorial Board Opinion

FOR THE BETTER part of a decade, Montgomery College has given tuition breaks to illegal immigrants who are recent graduates of Montgomery County high schools — treating them, in effect, just like their native-born classmates. But it was only last fall that the college codified the practice and gave it a name: Policy 45003.

This makes the community college, which enrolls some 27,000 degree-seeking students, an outlier among this region’s public colleges and, in our view, a beacon of good sense and opportunity.
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