Increasing # of public colleges are unaffordable for low-income students
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Market Watch
At 52% of public colleges, students from families that earned $30,000 per year or less paid at least $10,000 annually to attend during the 2015-2016 academic year, according a report released Wednesday by New America, a Washington-based think tank. That’s up from just 34% of public colleges in the 2010-2011 academic year.
“That’s just incredibly alarming,” said Stephen Burd, a senior policy analyst with the Education Policy program at New America and the author of the report. “Particularly for the lowest income students [public colleges] are getting out of reach.”
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Wednesday 07 November 2018 - 14:30:42