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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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In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. 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.

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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. A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. OAKLAND, Calif. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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

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She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. After that, Kailani stopped attending math. that provided the necessary data.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

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The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. In 2021, California allocated $5 million to Project Rebound. It’s right front and center so they know we’re here,” said James “JC” Cavitt, program director for Project Rebound at CSUF.

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

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In August 2021, after successive waves of infection saw schools open and close, in-person schooling finally resumed for students on the island, but not for long. Puerto Rico’s student population has dropped by almost half in 15 years, from almost 550,000 in 2006 to 276,413 in 2021, a decline caused by disasters, mismanagement and migration.

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Is California saving higher education?

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Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. Texas will also require this, beginning in 2021-22. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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After a tough but promising freshman year, Dartmouth student tackles change at elite campuses

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“We are expected to fail,” said Inoa, discussing widely held perceptions of poor black and Latino young men, while gesturing towards Dartmouth’s iconic symbols of privilege: white brick buildings with black shutters, sweeping lawns and well-stocked libraries. “We We are not supposed to be here.”.

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