The state’s highest court has voted 4-3 to dismiss a conservative group’s challenge to Montgomery College’s policy of charging discounted “in county” tuition rates to students who graduate from Montgomery County public high schools, regardless of residency or immigration status.

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ANNAPOLIS — The approval of Maryland’s Dream Act by popular vote should help spur the idea in other states to allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public colleges, if they meet certain qualifications, supporters said Friday. Frank Sharry, ...

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Some government headlines in Maryland on Thursday.

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That's big news for a governor widely thought to be pursuing national office in 2016.

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ANNAPOLIS — Voters on Tuesday approved allowing illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria to pay in-state tuition at public colleges, making Maryland the first state in the nation to pass by popular vote a version of the Dream Act. Illegal ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Here are five things to know about Election Day in Maryland. 1. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE Marylanders will be voting on whether to allow same-sex marriage beginning Jan. 1. 2. EXPANDED GAMBLING Maryland voters will be deciding whether to allow ...

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Maryland’s elected officials are making a final push for various state ballot questions. Gov. Martin O’Malley and other supporters of expanded gambling appeared Monday in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker and state lawmakers joined the governor, ...

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Just one day until voters in Maryland will help decide the nation's next president and a slew of local ballot initiatives, the campaigning continues.

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland could become the first state in the nation to decide by popular vote that illegal immigrants can be eligible for in-state college tuition, if students have attended a high school in the state for three years and ...

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Last year, this board strongly encouraged the Maryland Legislature to pass two bills: one granting in-state tuition for children of undocumented immigrants and the other allowing same-sex couples to marry here. To its credit, the Legislature did exactly that.

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