UPDATE – This move was reversed in the final budget. To learn more, read Heartbreak: Chronology of a Cruel Week. Missouri’s Conference Committee on Budget moved to strike language from …
Heartbreak: Chronology of a Cruel Week
Broken promises, amazing strength, and heartbreak are common among young and undocumented students in the U.S. since the Executive Order authorizing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was signed in …
Foundation Policy Interns Urge the Missouri Legislature to Increase Need-Based Aid
On Tuesday, April 15th, Education Policy Interns hand delivered the following letter to members of the Budget Conference Committee urging them to increase funding in the existing Access Missouri program, …
All the Ways that Money Matters: How Colleges Perpetuate Inequity
Scholarship Foundation Student Advisors assist 6,000 students and family members navigating admissions and financial aid each year. Sometimes I state the obvious. Money (or the absence of it) affects students …
Welcome to Kafkaesque Flagship University
Photo by Lilly Stephen Recently, our staff worked with a student who had graduated from a north county high school in 2017 with a 4.0 GPA. First in her family …
Disband “Decision Day”
Last year the Words of Faith blog was launched and a May Day post denounced the arbitrary but growing trend of declaring it “Decision Day”. On “Decision Day”, high schools, …
DACA’s Demise: A Call to Action
It is the season in which we see monarch butterflies migrating south. The monarch is considered a symbol of hope, of persistence, of transcendence, of the beauty and utterly natural …
DOING GOOD: Public Service Loan Forgiveness
I’m out to prove to you in this blogpost what you already know. There are some who are quite motivated to “do well” (and among them there are those who …
Making the Money Work
It’s safe to say that every student on financial aid has had moments of terrible challenge in making the money work. Big gaps, deposits due before aid arrives, unforeseen emergencies, …
GET OUT YOUR NATIONAL BADGE OF HONOR
URGENT ACTION NEEDED: If you are reading this blog, chances are good that you are committed to educational equity and to the principles of democracy. Your action is needed now. …
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