Counter Narrative: Students Informing

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S.I.N. In the article, “Constructing a Counter narrative: Students Informing Now (S.I.N.)...,” by Neidi Dominguez, Yazmin Duarte, etc., it discusses AB 540 students located in University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) they have gained their name by being immigrants who with the law passed in 2001 do not have to pay for nonresident tuition if they have attended at least three years at a California high school or have obtained their GED. However, this does not help the struggles of an average AB student as many are disqualified from financial aid, work study, and scholarships because of their status as an undocumented immigrant. In UCSC, AB 540 students wanting to bring to light their struggles created S.I.N. Students Informing Now where they