Esta mañana, escribí un poste en inglés. La traducción de Google es muy mala. Escribo otra vez.

Debajo de AB540, los estudiantes inmigrantes pueden atender a las universidades de California para la misma precio que residentes. Pero el “DREAM Act”  permitiría que los estudiantes recibieran la ayuda financiera.

Actualmente SALEF, conjuntamente con otras organizaciones, está impulsando la propuesta de ley California Dream Act, propuesta por el senador Gilbert Cedillo. Ésta legislación permitiría a estudiantes tener acceso a distintos tipos de ayuda financiera.

“El California Dream Act beneficiaría a estudiantes AB540 porque propone que puedan acceder a Calgrants o poder obtener préstamos.”, comentó Ana Grande, directora del programa de juventud y consejería en SALEF.

Aunque el California Dream Act fue rechazado el año pasado, ha sido reintroducido este año y está siendo actualmente debatido en el senado estatal. Si es que es aprobado por el senado pasaría a la oficina del gobernador Schwarzenegger para su aprobación final.

Es importante resaltar que este año casi tres millones de estudiantes se graduarán de escuelas preparatorias en Estados Unidos, de los cuales 60,000 no tendrán la posibilidad de continuar sus estudios, no por falta de motivación, sino por su estatus migratorio.

“Los estudiantes AB 540 no se deben dar por vencidos”, dijo Grande. “También deben unirse con otros estudiantes aunque no sean AB 540 porque en la unión está la fuerza.”

Aparte de los típicos obstáculos legislativos, uno de los principales problemas que aquejan a los estudiantes AB 540 es que muchos de ellos creen que no tienen la posibilidad de entrar a universidades.

“Una de las principales dificultades que afrontan los estudiantes AB 540 es no saber que hay grupos dentro de la comunidad que prestan ayuda a estudiantes de este tipo”, comentó Grande.

“Muchos no saben que tienen el derecho de entrar a universidades como cualquier otro residente”, agregó.(Cal-State Northridge El Nuevo Sol)

Todos los estudiantes deben recibir la educación de la calidad en los bajos costos. Todos los estudiantes deben saber que pueden atender a las universidades de California. La educación es energía.

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(cross-posted from Working Californians) Taking the math one step further, the Republicans are demanding they get 74% support for a budget deal.  That is just absurd.

Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-Los Angeles) is back in town and fired up, calling the Republicans’ actions “political hostage-taking”.  Brian has audio up on Calitics from Nunzez today.  The Speaker made it very clear that if the Assembly was to re-open budget negotiations, many of the concessions that the Democrats made would be rescinded, as a condition of coming back to the table.  Nunez also reminded folks what the Republicans have been up to in his absence.

The demands on the things that were important to the Senate Republicans changed from time to time.  There seems to be no interest in compromise and clearly the lack of an effective exit strategy for the Senate Republicans.

Nunez stated that he is not interested in re-opening the negotiations, but if there is no budget by August 20th, he would set conditions for actually coming back to the table.  The five month delay in the cost of living adjustments for the SSI program would have to be added back in.  That program aids the blind, disable and elderly.  He would also require that they restore at least a substantial amount of the $1.3 billion taken from transportation funding.

He made it very clear that the Democrats would “not consider any cuts whatsoever to the education programs or to the health and human services safety net.”  Nor will they “entertain discussions of reforms to CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) of any kind”.  The Republicans to tie the hands of Jerry Brown’s ability to go after greenhouse gas emissions under the ability granted to him in CEQA.  Arnold has also announced his opposition to including that in the budget negotiations.

The Speaker points out the hypocrisy of the Republicans demanding tax cuts, at the same time they are arguing for a zero operating deficit, saying they are “mutually inconsistent”.  He also notes that 82 out of the 120 members of the state legislature are already supporting the legislature.  That is 68% of the legislature.

The assertion by some in the Senate Republican quarters that by simply getting the Assembly to reconvene, some how magically we would have a budget in California, is totally false.  It is a farce.  It is not true.  It is not going to happen. And even if did, we would not agree to any further cuts, deeper than what we did not like but agreed to in the budget compromise that passed through the Assembly 2.5 weeks ago.

If the Republicans want to come back to the table, they will need to give up some of the things they earned during the original negotiation.  The Assembly Democrats will not agree to anything that cuts things further than what they previously agreed to.  Not exactly, fertile territory for the Republicans to accomplish what they want.  He is taking a welcomed hard line.

From the AP article linked earlier:

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said in a telephone interview. “Why would I agree to any budget that is worse for Democrats than the budget that we closed on? I just couldn’t do that.”