"Always stand up for what you believe in," Naomi Peña Villasano said after receiving her high school diploma at a Colorado school she sued. The 18-year-old managed to get the school to commit to reconsidering its rules for the next course.
"I am 200%: 100% American and 100% Mexican," the teenager had said at a recent school board meeting. "The district is discriminating against the expression of different cultural heritages," his attorney Kenneth Parreno said at Friday's hearing.