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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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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

There is no one answer for what the coming school year will look like, but it won’t resemble the fall of 2019. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. Future outbreaks will make for unpredictable waves of closures.

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Department ’s Privacy Office to Take Effect in Early 2019.” News from the most well-funded ed-tech company, student loan provider SoFi : SoFi settles w/ FTC over allegations it misrepresented how much borrowers save by refinancing. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.”

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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 Many states have resorted to enforcement actions, lawsuits and new laws to crack down on for-profit colleges and universities and loan-servicing companies they say cheat or mislead students. And at the federal level, a House bill — introduced by U.S.