Nation's College Admission Counselors Urge Education & Workforce Committee to Halt Immigration Hearings, Act on Pressing Education Issues.

(From AScribe)

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Noting the plight of hundreds of thousands of children and young adults who have been effectively excluded from educational opportunity by an inconsistency in federal law and years of state legislative deliberation on the issue, the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) urged Congressional leaders to take immediate action to allow states the right to grant in-state tuition for undocumented students who have attended and graduated from public K-12 schools in their states. In so doing, the association expressed its disappointment with field hearings such as that scheduled in Greeley, Colo., at the University of …