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

The Hechinger Report

Using data from three California Community College districts and student demographic information, researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses. Sometimes, they enter into a payment plan for tuition and can’t keep up.

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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

The Hechinger Report

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

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?

The Hechinger Report

Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. Overall, public school enrollment fell by 710,000 students between the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 school years in the 21 states plus Washington, D.C.,

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The Prison to College Pipeline

The Hechinger Report

But that decades-long ban will end this summer, thanks to legislation passed in 2020. The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. So one day in 2020, Conner let Cavitt know that he was done with Project Rebound and would be moving out of the house.

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

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Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in May 2020. Sixty-one percent of student fathers drop out of college without degrees, compared to 48 percent of student mothers, the women’s policy research institute finds.

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