‘It’s just convenient for me’: New Hinds Community College program topples barriers to higher education

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Teneshia LeBran’s journey to get her associate degree hasn’t been easy.

LeBran first enrolled at Hinds Community College in August 2019 to study early childhood education technology. She’s a young, single mother raising five small children — with another baby due in June. She has experience volunteering for Head Start committees in Hinds County, which provides free-early childhood education, nutrition and services to low-income families. She has also had to navigate federal food assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Women, Infants, and Children.

“I want to open my own day care one day,” LeBran said…

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