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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

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At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into schedules complicated not only by jobs and families, but counseling, support groups and doctor visits. “I Washington lawmakers passed a bill in 2019 that led to the creation of a state grant fund to support recovery.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

Generation Hope scholar alumna Lakeya and her two sons celebrating her graduation from Towson University in May 2019. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. Generation Hope’s experience shows how access to funding and supportive relationships can make a difference in college completion.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

The California Acceleration Project, an advocacy group founded by faculty, reported that pass rates for underprepared students at Cuyamaca in college-level math jumped to 67 percent last year, up from 10 percent the year before. He is on track to pass them all, even with his heavy workload at UPS, and hopes to earn his degree in 2019.

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

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There is no one answer for what the coming school year will look like, but it won’t resemble the fall of 2019. But access to home support is arguably even more important. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”.

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How are college campuses preparing for a post-Roe world?

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Yael Benvenuto Ladin, a recent graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, is working to improve access to abortions for young people who live in states where the procedures would be banned or significantly limited if the Supreme Court overturns Roe, effectively removing the federal right to a legal abortion.