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Student debt relief is coming for more than 16,000 Washington state residents. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to allow a greater pool of people to have their student loans erased, the Biden administration announced it would forgive higher education debt for about 800,000 Americans. ...
Latino students in California are graduating from college at much lower rates than white students, and the gap has widened over the last four years, according to a new analysis from the nonprofit Excelencia in Education. The data show in 2021, 22% of Latinos in California age 25 and older have an associate degree or higher, compared with 56% of white adults. Sarita Brown, co-founder and president of Excelencia in Education, said Latino students are key to meeting the country's college-attainment goals. ...
College enrollment numbers are down in Indiana as more high school graduates are choosing to take one or more gap years, pursue vocational certification or not attend college at all. Lumina Foundation is a private group promoting post-high school education. Its goal is by 2025, 60% of Americans will have a high-quality post-high school credential. ...
By Nya Brunson / Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan reporting for the Central State-Ohio News Connection Collaboration. Higher education institutions across the United States are getting an increase in attention. In Ohio and many other states across the country, there has been an increase in restrictions on higher education and what can be taught in these institutions. ...
Applications for the state's new private-tuition voucher program are double what lawmakers anticipated. Critics of the plan say it will divert even more money than they anticipated away from Iowa's traditional public-school students. When lawmakers legalized Iowa's Education Savings Accounts, they anticipated about 14,000 families would apply for the scholarship, which makes more than $7,600 available for parents to pay for private school tuition. ...