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Education & Legal Action: Taking a Stand to Support Latina/o Academic Achievement

Access to Community College for Undocumented Immigrants: A Guide for State Policymakers (PDF)
An ACHIEVING THE DREAM Policy Brief
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case Plyler v. Doe that all children are guaranteed access to public education in grades K-12, regardless of immigration and legal status. Over the past few decades, there has been an influx in the number of children attending K-12 education classified as “undocumented,” which affects their eligibility to enroll in college. This type of non- support limits access to financial aid and scholarships. Various community colleges and state governments of: Texas, California, Florida, and New Mexico, among other states have been researching the DREAM Act and the Student Adjustment Act.

Equal Educational Opportunity Since Brown (PDF)
Four Major Developments
Leonard A. Valverde. Arizona State University. Education and Urban Society. Vol. 36 No. 3. Crown Press. 2004.
Proposed in this article is four major educational developments resulting from the decision of 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I and Title VII, school finance, affirmative action, and multicultural education. Valverde suggests that each of these major efforts was targeted to overcome discriminatory practices produced partially by school segregation, inequality of treatment, denial of resources and access, as well as stereotyping and denigration of culture, which today still affects students enrolled in institutions across the country.

National Immigrant Law Center: DREAM Act Summary (PDF)
Senate Judiciary Committee. National Immigration Law Center. April 2004.
This report summary from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee states that on October 23, 2003, the Senate Judiciary Committee by a 16-3 margin approved an amended version of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S. 1545. Seven of the ten Committee Republicans and all Democrats voted in favor of the bill. Included in this summary is a brief history of the DREAM Act at the national level.