On Sunday, November 18, 2012 the Governor of Massachusetts announced that students that qualify for the Federal Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program would be charged in-state tuition and fees. On the following Monday, Governor Deval Patrick send a letter to the state’s Board of Higher Education immediately lowering the rates and allowing undocumented students already attending Massachusetts colleges and universities to apply for a refund of the differ between out-of-state tuition to in-state tuition. This action will reduce the cost of tuition for qualified undocumented immigrants by more than half.
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/11/19/massachusetts-governor-grants-in-state-tuition-to-undocumented-immigrants/#ixzz2ChOysVDJ
View the (.PDF) fact sheet on Massachusetts’s In-State Tuition for DACA Beneficiaries