CA Dream Act- A modern twist on education rights

The passage of the CA Dream Act is a step towards remedying the age old problem of unequal education rights between immigrants and non-immigrants. By allowing the undocumented to increase their likelihood or levels of education, they can potentially escape the circle of poverty that the illiterate and uneducated in historical times. With increases in opportunities for schooling, slaves and immigrants both saw increases in wage relative to whites in earlier times in the US. Could this be the same for today?