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Couch surfing, living in cars: Housing insecurity derails foster kids’ college dreams 

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Kyshawna Johnson, photographed during her shift at a Jovenes home in Los Angeles, on September 12th, 2023. Kyshawna Johnson, photographed during her shift at a Jovenes home in Los Angeles, CA, on September 12th, 2023. In 2009, for example, the state passed legislation requiring many schools to give them priority for on-campus housing.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

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Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

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