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"The Pennsylvania House unanimously approved legislation to allow students receiving welfare benefits to enroll in an academic support program for up to two years while completing an associate's or technical education."

"It's hard to predict what life will be like a decade from now, but one thing is certain there will be a much greater need for financial aid to make college affordable for millions of young people. So it's especially troubling that Congress is considering freezing Pell Grants at the current level until 2025."

"The record U.S. graduation rate masks large gaps among students from low-income families and those with disabilities compared with their peers. There are also wide disparities among states in how well they are tackling the issue."

"Investors here have gleefully trumpeted technology's disruption of everything from transportation to entertainment. Now, they have a new target: college admissions. A group of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists have been quietly pouring resources into an education nonprofit that boosts the number of low-income students at the nation's top colleges."

"The nation's high school graduation has been climbing steadily for nearly a decade, but the overall trend masks wide differences among states and groups of students. Low-income students, black and Hispanic students and students with disabilities are still far less likely to graduate than average, according to the annual GradNation report released Tuesday by a coalition of groups pushing to raise the national graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020."

"The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced an inaugural $1 million award to Vassar College for its success in attracting and graduating low-income students. The Cooke Prize for Equity in Educational Excellence is the largest award in the nation recognizing a college making strides in enrolling low-income students and supporting them to successful graduation."

"Two of the colleges at the university, Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, will cover the cost of cap and gown for students who demonstrate financial need, starting this commencement season, according to Sydney Goss, director of communications for Columbia College."

"A longtime state program to reduce class sizes in elementary schools with significant numbers of poor students would no longer require fewer students in classrooms under changes senators will vote on Wednesday."

"But U-M has one number it's probably not proud of: the smallest share of low-income students among Michigan's public universities, and one of the lowest rates among public universities in the country. Schlissel says increasing diversity, including economic diversity, on the Ann Arbor campus is a priority."