Updated: 6:32 PM EDT April 7, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Hundreds of millions of dollars in CARES Act money continues to help colleges in the Carolinas expand virtual learning and put critical money in students pockets to cover tuition, food, and housing, but a WCNC Charlotte investigation found little-known trade schools with few students disproportionately benefited from the first round of funding. Federal records show a Chinese school of medicine, religious colleges, and a school of cosmetology received the most per student while community colleges collected the least. You have these very small colleges that serve a small proportion of students and in most cases, a very small portion of low-income students, that received a significant share of funding when that funding could have been better distributed to colleges that really needed it, Center for American Progress Postsecondary Team Managing Director Antoinette Flores said. Community colleges received a much s