School Library May / June Issue
May Issue's School Library Section
Financing Education
In this issue of Hispanic Outlook we
· Assess President Trump’s Relationship With U.s. Latinos in Latino Kaleidoscope
· Say Let’s Discuss Public, Private Nonprofit and Private for-profit Schools With a Look at the High Cost of a Higher Education
· Examine Money Matters With a Series of Articles Including How New York Offers Free Tuition and Why It Doesn’t Always Mean Free College as Well as the Efforts of Millennial Parents to Create Savings for College Costs and the Multiyear Council of Graduate Schools-tiaa Research Initiative on 15 College Campuses
· Explain Parental Involvement in Their Children’s Education as Presented in Parent Guidance Suggested
· Offer News About Scholarships and Grants Including Arkansas College’s 2-year Tuition and Fees Grant, Unh Tuition-free Program for Pell Grant Freshmen, the University of Akron’s New Scholarship Program, Uh Efforts to Offer Community College Students Free Education Through Hawaii’s Promise Scholarship Program, and We Pose the Question Could Pell Grants Work Year-round?
· Spread the News Through Our School Newspaper About Incentives to Nursing Students Offered by West Virginia University, a New Financial Literacy Program at the University of Southern California, a Schwab Project With Donorschoose.org to Fund Financial Literacy in Public Schools, Comcast Nbcuniversal’s $21,000 Award to Twelve Vermont High School Seniors, and the Number One Ranking in Upward Mobility for Cal State Los Angeles
· And Are Proud to Feature the 2017 Pura Belpré Award Winning and Honors Books in Our School Library as Well as Look at Titles That Explore Financing a College Education
May Issue's School Library Section
Comcast NBCUniversal announced that it has awarded approximately $20,000 in scholarships for the 2017-18 school year to 12 Vermont students as part of its annual Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program. The program, funded by the Comcast Foundation, recognizes the best and brightest high school seniors for their community service, academic performance and leadership skills.
“Cal State LA’s mobility rate is 9.9 percent. Pace University-New York ranked second on the list with a rate of 8.4 percent.”
West Virginia University is offering tuition incentives in hopes of increasing the number of highly trained nurses in the state and beyond.
The University of Hawaii is working with state leaders to secure $2.5 million to implement a scholarship program for community college students in need.
Pell Grants have been a fixture of federal financial aid since the 1970s, helping about 8 million low-income students attend college each year.
The University of New Hampshire has a new scholarship program called Granite Guarantee, which will allow full-time, first-year students in the state receiving federal Pell grants to attend the school tuition-free.
Kyler Daniels has not yet graduated from Walnut Ridge High School, but the 19-year-old is already working as a certified nursing assistant. He has also earned needed certifications to work in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC).
High school and college graduation season is just around the corner. It’s a season of joy and pride for graduates and their families – but more often than not, the achievement comes with a hefty price tag.
They don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but...New York public college students who would stand to gain from the nation’s most ambitious free-tuition proposal are quick to point out a sobering reality from their own meager finances: Free tuition doesn’t mean free college.
There’s a big string attached to New York’s free middle-class college tuition initiative: Students must stay in the state after graduation or else pay back the benefit.
Once upon a time, Mexican Americans, the largest U.S. ethnic group, liked to consider themselves as the forgotten minority. Actually, it was the 1960s when the Democrats under the reins of the John F. Kennedy and the Lyndon Johnson administrations ruled.
