Maryland Lawsuit Targets Undocumented Students’ Local Tuition Break: A Maryland community college is facing a lawsuit over its policy to provide low “in-county” tuition rates to any recent graduate of a local high school regardless of immigration status.
Judicial Watch claims the Montgomery College policy violates federal and state law and says the policy has cost Montgomery County, Md., taxpayers $5.8 million in lost revenue since 2006.
... Montgomery College called the lawsuit “unwarranted” and vowed to contest it. In a statement, the college’s board of trustees said the legal challenge “contains various misrepresentations about college operations and misapplications of law.”
The college policy offers the lowest tuition rate to any graduate of a Montgomery County public high school within the past three years, regardless of where these graduates currently reside. If students graduated from a county public high school more than three years ago, they must provide proof of county residency to receive this discount.
