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

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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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After graduating this spring, she plans to transfer to nearby Western Washington University, where talks are underway to expand recovery supports thanks in part to advocacy from students in the Breaking Free club. 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

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Generation Hope scholar alumna Lakeya and her two sons celebrating her graduation from Towson University in May 2019. At Generation Hope, we are building a policy and advocacy agenda driven by student parents all over the country that will prioritize removing financial barriers to college completion for Black parents.

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

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Roy Wilson, president of Wayne State University, Sandy Baruah, president and CEO of the Chamber and Brandy Johnson, advisor, Office of the Governor – Michigan announce a new initiative to remove college debts at gathering hosted by the Lumina Foundation in Detroit Michigan on April 30, 2019. Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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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. 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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Is California saving higher education?

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But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost.