The right-wing Court’s decision reverses decades of precedent. In 1978, the Court ruled that affirmative action was lawful, a decision it later upheld in 2003 and 2016. The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, ruling...
About 90% of the benefits from Biden’s plan will go to families earning less than $75,000 according to the White House, but a group of Republican-led states have sued to block it. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on President Biden’s student...
Under the new plan, borrowers who earn less than roughly $30,600 a year would owe $0 a month on their federal student loans, effectively pausing them. An estimated 8.5 million borrowers are enrolled in existing income-driven repayment plans and stand to benefit from...
“The probability for someone like me— undocumented—to go to college is, like, very low.” Maria Dominguez came to the US from Mexico in 2005, when she was less than a year old. Now she is a sophomore at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix. While Dominguez’s...
A new study shows 5.4% of Latino undergraduate college students dropped out because of the COVID-19 crisis. For several years, Latinos were increasingly enrolling in college. This year, however, because of COVID-19, some Latinos have no choice but to drop out. A new...