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The Senate budget will also recommend continuing fiscal 2024 higher education investments, such as $18 million in free nursing programs at community colleges and $24 million that the state is currently investing in free community college for residents over 25

Very few students pay the sticker price. So harping on the $90,000 figure just confuses students further.

Given the budgetary challenges expected to result from the city’s eroding commercial tax base, councilors are taking a new look at modernizing a payment in lieu of taxes program arguably short-changed by Boston’s wealthy nonprofit sector.

BOSTON — Higher education officials have launched a new financial aid form meant to support undocumented college students, building on a new state policy that provides in-state tuition for undergraduates

The Massachusetts Application for State Financial Aid (MASFA) allows undocumented students to apply for state need-based financial aid for the first time Apply at mass.edu/MASFA BOSTON — Press Release - Today, the Healey-Driscoll Administration took a significant step forward in expanding access to higher education for all Massachusetts residents by launching the new Massachusetts Application for State Financial Aid (MASFA). The Department of

Boston's tax-exempt organizations make voluntary cash payments and create community programs meant to benefit residents, but critics say they're not giving enough for all they're getting.

The yearslong trend is coming into the spotlight after affirmative action was struck down by the Supreme Court.

Colleges have struggled for decades with a pervasive culture of assault and harassment. But experts say a once imperfect process for holding perpetrators accountable is now broken and in desperate need of repair — and politicians are partly to blame.

A bill in Massachusetts seeks to tax rich colleges that favor families of alumni and donors in admissions policies — namely Harvard University — and give the money to poorer

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