My son's school was the birth place of a "I have a dream" class 13 years ago. Those 60 kindergartners are graduating from high school tomorrow. Of the 60, 3 graduated early, 5 got GEDs and the remaining 52 are all walking tomorrow. Many of them are using their Dreamer money for technical certificates at the community college, but, we are in a city with a 70ish percent graduation rate for low income children of color, of which 85% of the Dreamers are.

Clearly, catching them early, providing them and their families with support and giving them hope that college is actually an attainable goal financially does wonders.