Mass. immigrant tuition bill to get new push

Ten states have legislation to allow these kids who went to their high schools to go to their colleges with instate tuition charges. Massachusetts is not one of them and might be changing that law. - - Donna Poisl

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS

CHELSEA, Mass. — It seemed like a given that Mario Rodas would go to college.

The Guatemalan-born student certainly had the academic credentials, going from English as a second language classes to taking advanced placement exams for college credit his senior year at Chelsea High School.

But paying for it was another matter. As an undocumented immigrant in 2005, Rodas would have had to pay out-of-state tuition fees to go to a public college in Massachusetts, and he couldn't afford that.
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