Alex Serna: Cuts to campus childcare derail low-income, 1st-generation college students
“I became the first in my family to graduate from college —with four kids — thanks to help from programs included in the Trump administration’s $10.6 billion in proposed cuts to federal education initiatives. Without those programs I would never have graduated from UC Berkeley and UCLA respectively. Like many low-income, first-generation students, my the road to and through college was a difficult journey. According to the Pell Institute, only 10.9 percent of low-income, first-generation students attained a bachelor’s degree in six years.”