Big drop in 'dreamers' enrolled at Maricopa Community Colleges after tuition ruling

September 25, 2018
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Enrollment has dropped 40 percent among Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients at the Maricopa Community Colleges after an Arizona Supreme Court ruling earlier this year made them ineligible for in-state tuition.


The drop is much larger than average fluctuations in the DACA student population, the colleges confirmed. Numbers from previous years were not immediately available.

Read more at The Arizona Republic: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona-education/2018/09/24/arizona-tuition-ruling-big-drop-dreamers-community-colleges/1374502002/