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Metro State Approves Tuition Rate for Illegal Immigrant Students

has become the first school in Colorado to create a new tuition category specifically for illegal immigrants who graduate from Colorado high schools.

The tuition would be significantly lower than the out of state rate the students currently pay. It mirrors during this year's legislative session.

KUNC’s state capitol reporter Bente Birkeland has more.

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.
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