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Caption Sen. Raphael Warnock answers questions about federal aid from mothers Friday at Jackson Memorial Church in Atlanta. Credit: Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
Sen. Raphael Warnock toured an Atlanta church’s vaccination efforts Friday and told a small group of mothers how provisions in the pandemic relief bill signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday can help children in need.
“As a kid who grew up in poverty, I know personally the struggles that families have,” said Warnock, who was raised in a Savannah housing project. “I know because I’m a product of good federal public policy, an alumnus of the Head Start federal program, the Trio program, I came through Upward Bound, benefited from Pell Grants. An investment in our children is a worthwhile investment.”
Cyber talent earns Hayes full ride to graduate school
UNG alumnus Thomas Hayes earned a full-ride graduate school scholarship through the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program. He is pursuing a master s degree in cybersecurity and privacy at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Thomas Hayes left no stone unturned when it came to building his credentials and helping others while he was a student at the University of North Georgia (UNG). Now, the December 2020 graduate with a bachelor s degree in information systems has parlayed those qualities into a prestigious full-ride graduate school scholarship.
Hayes is pursuing a master s degree in cybersecurity and privacy at New Jersey Institute of Technology through the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, which covers full tuition, a $34,000 annual stipend, health insurance, and money for professional development and textbooks. Funded by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the scholarship is designed to recruit and train
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Angie Tovar is a teacher at Pembroke Elementary School. She went to Danbury schools and participated in a pipeline program through the public schools and Western Connecticut State University that encourages minority students to become teachers. She is the first Danbury student to go through the program and then return to teach at Danbury schools. Friday, March 12, 2021, in Danbury, Conn.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut Media
DANBURY As a kid, Angie Tovar created worksheets to help her mom learn English.
completing two- or four-year college degrees?
You can think about this in different steps, right? First there is the step of going to college in the first place. And then the second step is persisting through college and then ultimately graduating. Our study found that some of the factors that decreased their likelihood of going to college were things like academic preparedness in high school, issues with mobility while they re in foster care, the number of foster care placements they were in.
And then interestingly, once youth are in college, when we re looking at their chances of ultimately graduating and earning a degree, I found that youth who are parents, youth that had to work extra hours to pay for their bills, and the number of economic hardships that youth faced in college real world difficulties, everyday taking-care-of-the-finances difficulties, and parenting responsibilities, are things that drove down their likelihood of persisting and