Staff at Academia Avance in LA's Highland Park neighborhood are leveraging relationships with immigrants’ rights groups to support students amid heightened fears of deportation.
AB2093 would allow California's 116 community colleges to forgive tuition and fees for low-income California resident students as they pursue a four-year degree.
A groundbreaking program in California is helping students and faculty navigate the lengthy and often labyrinthine immigration system, free of charge and regardless of status.
More teachers are leaving the profession as fewer people seek to enter it, while fights over curricula and pandemic-era learning loss loom in classrooms nationwide.
They argue the decision is likely to widen existing inequities in higher education and that proponents of Affirmative Action need to find new ways to ensure diversity.