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Show int raKfl. KLUUKU wrww.parkrecord.com SATURDAY, JANUARY 26,2002 Education A-9 0 EDUCATION EDITOR: Jason Reade 649-9014 ext.118 educationparkrecord.com fiefs District annual report available Copies of the Park City School District 2002 annual report are available avail-able at the District Office, located at 2700 Kearns Blvd. Office hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more Information, call 645-5600. E V McCubbin makes CSU Dean's List James Michael McCubbin of Park, City was named to the Dean's List at Colorado State University for the fall 2001 semester. McCubbin, a sophomore sopho-more speech communication major in the College of Liberal Arts, had to achieve at least "a 3 8 grade-point average while carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours. Colorado State is located in Fort Collins, Colo. Askins graduates from Baylor University Aubrey Kaye Askins, a 1997 graduate grad-uate of Park City High School, received a bachelor of business" administration degree from Baylor University at the Deq. 15 fall com mencement , Baylor is . located in Waco, Texas. . Board retreat next week The Park City Board of Education will meet in a retreat Monday and Fuesday, Jan. 28 and 29. Ure confident student access bill will pass Current law puts ceiling ambitions; new law would by Jason Reads OF THE RECORD STAFF With all the focus this week on the state's meager coffers (and whether legislators leg-islators would tap the rainy day fund to soften public education's brunt of budget budg-et cuts), little has been said about a bill sponsored by : Rep. David Ure, , R-Kamas, R-Kamas, that has significant local implica tions - a still-to-be-introduced piece of legislation dubbed "Education for on immigrant students' open college doors wider residency status to non-resident students if undocumented immigrants receive such benefits. " As a result, thousands of otherwise eligible American high school students are unable to attend public colleges and n2L Legisl ature universities. The out-of-state tuition rates are prohibitively pro-hibitively expensive for the majority of these students, according Maak. Undocumented residents are legally ineligible to receive federal financial aid, including Pell grants and Stafford and Perkins loans. Undocumented students reach a roadblock of sorts when they graduate from high school. A 1 9X2 Supreme Court ruling prohibits states from taking immigration status into account when enrolling elementary and secondary students, stu-dents, but no such judicial protection exists in higher education. Ure, the House. Majority Whip, cited the economic benefits of a more edueat-cd edueat-cd workforce as the impetus behind the Please see Bill, A-10 Illegal Aliens." ' Nonetheless. Ure, whose district includes Park City and Summit County, is optimistic about the bill's prospects -and said so this week with his characteristic character-istic no-honsense language. "I'm expecting that bugger... to get that through." Ure told The Park Record Tuesday. Thti bill would allow high school graduates grad-uates who have lived in Utah for at least three years - regardless of their immigration immi-gration status - to pay in-state tuition at state colleges and universities. The measure follows the approval of similar bills in California and Texas. Park City High School Spanish -.teacher Gerry Maak, a vocal advocate for immigrant education reform, pressed , Ure to take up the cause. , "We educate them and give them . ideas about going to college, and then they-can't," Maak said. "All we're doing is creating an enormous underclass." Current federal law effectively prohibits pro-hibits states from classifying undocumented undocu-mented students as residents, labeling them instead as out-of-state or international interna-tional students. Section 505 of the federal Illegal t Immigration Reform and Immisrranf Act I pi X J I hi 5& STEPHEN ZUSYP1RK RECORD Norwegian skiing legend and Park City resident Stein Eriksen, Norwegian House Director Virginia Edward, and Tom Cammermeyer of the Norwegian Outdoor Exploration Center hold a student-made quilt during an assembly at McPolin Elementary School this week. The quilt represents McPolin students' support for Norwegian Olympic f--e,, ue penenuynqusea in me Norwegian SKm headquarters following the Games, |