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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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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

Almost anyone can enroll at a community college in California, but each college has its own process to decide how to place students. He is on track to pass them all, even with his heavy workload at UPS, and hopes to earn his degree in 2019. All colleges must implement the changes required by the new law by the fall of 2019.

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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 If policymakers are going to close California’s graduation gap, they’ll have to figure out how to meet the needs of students like Mora and Deas. Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost.

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

The Hechinger Report

Trainees are asked to consider their own strengths and boundaries as they learn how to provide emotional and practical support to someone going through the abortion process. The young people are also being taught how to organize, and how to educate others. It’s unclear what will happen if the Supreme Court overturns Roe. “We

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Department ’s Privacy Office to Take Effect in Early 2019.” ” Via the Center for American Progress : “How the DeVos Family Is Buying Political Sway Ahead of the Midterm Elections.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” “Who’s Meeting With DeVos ?