Monday, February 06, 2012

Commission named for immigrant scholarship program

If kids qualify for college, they should go, this scholarship program will help some of them. - - Donna Poisl

By Ryan Haggerty, Tribune reporter

Gov. Pat Quinn today named seven people to a state commission that will oversee a privately funded scholarship program designed to help undocumented immigrants pay for college.

The scholarship fund was created by the Illinois DREAM Act, which Quinn signed into law in August.

The law’s supporters have praised it as a civil rights victory that represents an alternative to measures cracking down on undocumented immigrants that have been passed in Arizona, Alabama and other states.
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