😽 Keepin’ It Simple Summary for Younger Readers👧🏾✊🏾👦🏾
Imagine programs that help teenagers whose parents never went to college prepare for their own college journey 🎓—tutoring 📚, campus visits 🏫, help filling out confusing forms 📑, even paying for college applications 💵.
These programs called TRiO Upward Bound really work: kids in them are almost 50% more likely to finish college 🎉!
But the federal government just canceled Pima Community College’s programs and took away over $6 million 💸, claiming (weirdly) that helping disadvantaged students somehow “violates civil rights” 🤔…