It recommended more college counselors and more advanced courses.Tennessee’s statewide free community college program, a model for programs across the country, appeared to be starting to achieve hard-fought gains. They repeated his high school curriculum, and he felt eager to leave high school behind and develop more advanced knowledge in engineering. But the oversight of the free community college students and their ability to persist appears far more tenuous. During the pandemic, with public schools often closed and recreation limited, caretaking responsibilities among low-income community college students have increased. In April 2020, Virginia’s governor put the commonwealth’s free community college program on hold.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 17, 2021 09:45 UTC