SPEAK OUT: How Should Montgomery County Schools Promote College Success?

MCPS, Montgomery College and USG partner to support at-risk students in college quests.

SPEAK OUT: How Should Montgomery County Schools Promote College Success?

MCPS, Montgomery College and USG partner to support at-risk students in college quests.

  Officials from the county’s public schools and colleges recently met to discuss how best to ensure success for at-risk students from kindergarten through college, The Gazette reported.  About 50 members of the boards of Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery College and the Universities at Shady Grove met for two hours at USG in Rockville Jan. 11, The Gazette reported. Officials discussed Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success, a partnership, announced in September, between MCPS, Montgomery College and USG.  The goal of program is to identify student populations underrepresented in higher education—African-American, Hispanic and low-income students and those whose parents didn’t go to college—and offer “comprehensive …

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Undocumented Students Pin Hopes on Federal Deferred Action, State DREAM Act

As the election approaches, local students hope the DREAM Act will pass.

By Erin Durkin, Capital News Service Veronica Martinez-Vargas, a 19-year-old illegal immigrant from Salisbury, couldn't believe it when she turned in her application for the Deferred Action program enacted in June by the Obama administration. "It was overwhelming," she said.  The program either stops or prevents deportation proceedings for undocumented youths for two years and allows them to obtain a work permit. To apply, immigrants had to be under age 31 as of June 15, 2012, but at least age 15. They also must prove they entered the country before their 16th birthday and lived in the U.S. since June 15, 2007. Just 29 applications have been approved nationally, of more than 82,000 who applied since the program opened in August. It's …

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Liz Garcia

11:25 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013

You don't understand how hard it is to become legal in this country even if you do it the right way. That is why you have a bunch of immigrants breaking the law rather than paying thousands of dollars to go back to the same place you started. I'm adopted by an American citizen, yet I still don't have a social security but according to law my father is an American. Makes no sense to me, now I have…   more ›