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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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Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Collegiate recovery programs began appearing at four-year institutions in the late 1970s, offering services like sober-living dorms, life skills classes and recovery coaches. Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report But the toughest scrambles are often for staff and funding.

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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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Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our newsletter. The results have been promising.

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Is California saving higher education?

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Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Lumina is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.). Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. “I Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”.