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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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million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. It was all hands on deck.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

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The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. but Allen made it through, graduating in December 2020.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

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These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. In short, they’re missing.

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Largely unseen and unsupported, huge numbers of student fathers are quitting college

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More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in May 2020. Castillo is one of about 3.8

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas — On a chilly morning just before Valentine’s Day 2020, Viviana Longoria, 16, joined the stream of girls getting off the bus at Lincoln Park School, infant bucket seats in tow. At a regular school, there’s so much drama,” Viviana said back in February 2020.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

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She was 8 in January 2020, when earthquakes rocked the island, closing her school for three months while engineers inspected its physical structures to make sure they were safe for students to return. A book in an elementary school library — El Apagón means The Blackout. Compounded trauma from the barrage of disasters lingers.