Saturday, February 17, 2007

Connecticut students look for in-state tuition


Here's the story that the folks from my "Writing For The Ear" class are reporting on this week. WNPR's Lucy Nalpathanchil is covering the continuing story of undocumented students in Connecticut and the attempt to get them in-state tuition rates.

The story's been covered by The Hartford Courant extensively this week. Mark Spencer's story in the paper includes an interesting reader survey. As of the time of this writing, some 80 percent of people responding said "No" to the idea.

Clearly, this sort of survey isn't scientific, but the reaction to an obviously sympathetic article is surprising.

(The photo is from The Hartford Courant)