5th Annual Student Day at the Capitol!

Tuesday, April 21

8:00am – 2:00pm

Workshops, Pre-Registration, and T-Shirts

We invite you and your students to participate in our 5th Annual Student Day at the Capitol, on this day Latino, immigrant and allied youth will have an opportunity to voice their opinions, stories, and personal her/histories around immigration and education, while they learn about civic engagement and social justice. Students will also get a chance to speak with legislators about improving access to higher education and creating more scholarships so all youth, regardless of immigration or income status, can go to college.

Last year was a huge success! We worked with 26 high schools, middle schools, and after-school programs in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Greater Minnesota with our youth leadership program. We organized nearly 1,000 students on Student Day at the Capitol to connect with one another and work to remove the instituional barriers standing in the way of their college education. We are building on last year’s success and want to invite more schools, students, and teachers to be a part of building this movement for access to higher education for all.

WORKSHOPS

If you are not part of the Yes I Can Dream! Curriculum program and would like us to facilitate a 1-hour workshop at your school to prepare students for the day, please fill out the Workshop Registration Form found on this page and return it to us so we can schedule this educational and leadership training for your group. Deadline for workshop registration is March 27, 2009.

Download the Workshop Registration Form

PRE-REGISTRATION needed for all

If you plan to come to Student Day at the Capitol you must pre-register your students, please download and fill out the SDC Participant Registration Form found on this page and return it to us. Please note that all groups , including those working with the curriculum program, must pre-register. Deadline for pre-registration is April 10, 2009.

Download Pre-Registration Form

T-Shirt Order Form – $5.00 each

If your students would like to buy a t-shirt for this year’s student movement please collect $5.00 from each student that would like to order a t-shirt.

Payment for t-shirts can be made in one of the following ways:

•    Send us a check made payable to Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network by March 31

•    Collect your student’s cash payment and deliver to your dream coach by March 31

•    Collect your student’s cash payment and deliver to your trainers the day of the scheduled pre-Student Day at the Capitol workshop.

Once the t-shirts have been ordered they will be delivered to the Teacher/Counselor named below before Student Day at the Capitol, teachers/counselors named below will be responsible for distributing the t-shirts to the appropriate students.

Download T-Shirt Order Form

Victory with the Flat Rate Tuition Bill

For the past few years we-immigrants and allies-have been fighting for equal access to higher education for all students regardless of their immigration status. And during the last legislative session we made history! Although we still have to keep fighting for the MN Dream Act, we won a huge victory with the passage of the Flat-Rate Tuition Bill.

Undocumented students have won the right to attend 22 Minnesota colleges for in-state tuition.