SCR 8401 - DIGEST

Establishes a joint select committee on Latino accessibility to higher education, in consultation with the Washington State commission on Hispanic affairs to: (1) Increase awareness throughout the educational pipeline about the challenges facing the Latino community, to close the generational information gap within the Latino community;

(2) Close the generational information gap within the Latino community about the cost of and accessibility to higher education;

(3) Investigate ways to provide an appropriate level of financial aid to help Latinos enroll in and graduate from Washington State institutions of higher education;

(4) Improve articulation and communication between two-year and four-year institutions of higher education regarding higher education issues especially important to the Latino community; and

(5) Develop and propose strategies for helping Latino students achieve at high academic levels.

Directs the committee to report its findings and recommendations to the legislature at the regular legislative session in 2007.