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SACRAMENTO – More than one in three American Indian children live in poverty, and 22 percent ages 25 and older have not finished high school, the lowest of any racial/ethnic demographic group across all schools.
Only 13 percent of American Indians have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 29 percent of the US population.
In response, Sen. Mike McGuire has successfully advanced a bill that takes this issue head on and provides priority registration at California Community Colleges to American Indian students who live in poverty and are enrolled in CalWORKS, known as the Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, or Tribal TANF for short.
In 2013, California leaders granted some of California’s poorest students – CalWORKS recipients – priority registration at California Community Colleges.
Providing easier access to community college will help lift low-income families and children out of poverty if they have the opportunity to enroll into college or career training programs.
Priority registration leads to faster degree and certificate completion, more flexibility to balance work schedules and family responsibilities, and a supportive college environment. However, students receiving Tribal TANF were not granted that same priority registration.
“Despite the highest poverty and lowest education attainment levels in California, the poorest Native American students were never granted priority registration to community colleges,” said Senator Mike McGuire. “Education is one of the best tools to lift folks out of poverty and Native American students deserve fast and easy access to community college just like everyone else.”
California currently provides priority registration for veterans, disabled students, homeless, foster youth, and CalWORKS recipients. American Indian students who are on CalWORKS were never granted this same access.
SB 164 removes a significant barrier to breaking out of poverty through higher education by ensuring that all TANF/CalWORKS students receive the benefit of priority registration.
SB 164 was approved by a unanimous, bipartisan vote in the Assembly Higher Education Committee Tuesday afternoon.
The bill will now move to the Assembly Appropriations Committee before heading to the Assembly floor for a full vote.
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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – This year’s recipients of the J. Fletcher and Anne Elliott Educational Scholarship, awarded earlier this month at Kelseyville High School, are seniors Nathaniel Carpenter and Victor Cacho.
Both young men have outstanding academic and athletic high school careers, each ranking high in their class.
In addition, both had exemplary athletic success through their high school years, with Carpenter playing basketball, baseball and football, and Cacho playing four years of soccer.
Carpenter is going to attend San Jose State, where he will major in political science. Cacho will attend Sacramento State, majoring in criminal justice.
This year’s award is $10,000 to each recipient.
“This scholarship will really help reduce stress on my month-end expenses, allowing me to get a meal or buy a needed textbook,” said Carpenter. “It’s a huge help not having to get more loans.”
“This will allow me to focus on schoolwork, knowing I will able to buy the textbook more easily,” Cacho said.
This scholarship foundation was originally established by the late Anne Elliott with the help of Rian Sommerfield at Nestegg Investment Consulting.
It’s expected to fund future scholarships for decades to come in memory of Elliott’s husband, J. Fletcher.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Isabella Mattina, a junior at Clear Lake High School of Lakeport, is a delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Lowell, Mass., on June 25 to 27.
The Congress is an honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields.
The purpose of this event is to honor, inspire, motivate and direct the top students in the country who aspire to be physicians or medical scientists, to stay true to their dream and, after the event, to provide a path, plan and resources to help them reach their goal.
Mattina was nominated by Dr. Robert Darling, the medical director of the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists to represent Clear Lake High School based on her academic achievement, leadership potential and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine.
During the three-day Congress, Mattina will join students from across the country and hear Nobel Laureates and National Medal of Science winners talk about leading medical research; be given advice from Ivy League and top medical school deans on what to expect in medical school; witness stories told by patients who are living medical miracles; be inspired by fellow teen medical science prodigies; and learn about cutting-edge advances and the future in medicine and medical technology.
“This is a crucial time in America when we need more doctors and medical scientists who are even better prepared for a future that is changing exponentially,” said Richard Rossi, executive director, National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists. “Focused, bright and determined students like Isabella Mattina are our future and she deserves all the mentoring and guidance we can give her.”
The academy offers free services and programs to students who want to be physicians or go into medical science.
Some of the services and programs the academy offers are online social networks through which future doctors and medical scientists can communicate; opportunities for students to be guided and mentored by physicians and medical students; and communications for parents and students on college acceptance and finances, skills acquisition, internships, career guidance and much more.
The National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists was founded on the belief that we must identify prospective medical talent at the earliest possible age and help these students acquire the necessary experience and skills to take them to the doorstep of this vital career.
Based in Washington, D.C. and with offices in Boston, MA, the Academy was chartered as a nonpartisan, taxpaying institution to help address this crisis by working to identify, encourage and mentor students who wish to devote their lives to the service of humanity as physicians, medical scientists.
For more information visit www.FutureDocs.com .
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A week after announcing an outreach program and urging Corinthian Colleges Inc. students to apply for loan relief, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday demanded that the U.S. Department of Education quickly act on these requests.
The Department of Education has already found that Corinthian Colleges targeted low-income, vulnerable students through false advertisements that misrepresented job placement rates and the value of school programs.
Attorney General Becerra joined the attorneys general of 18 states and the District of Columbia in a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos calling for no delay in reviewing and approval of student loan forgiveness applications.
“While students pursued a college degree, this so-called higher education institution preyed on their aspirations and tried to steal their American Dream,” said Attorney General Becerra. “Colleges, especially those that operate as for-profit institutions, must be held accountable. Secretary DeVos must act quickly to review and approve relief for these students. At the California Department of Justice, we will continue working to ensure that all who seek higher education can do so without worrying about unscrupulous purveyors of sham college education.”
In their letter, the Attorneys General also asked Secretary DeVos to provide information on what the department is doing to rectify the growing backlog of applications, a timeframe for discharge of the student debt, and to abandon the application process altogether and automatically discharge all eligible loans.
About 27,000 students nationwide, including thousands in California, who have already been approved for loan forgiveness have yet to see their loans discharged. Some students are nearing the end of 12-month forbearances on their loans and face restarting monthly payments on debts that should be forgiven.
“Relieving these hard-working Americans of their fraud-induced student debt will free them to participate more fully in their local economies, or even continue their educations with reputable schools,” the Attorneys General write.
The California Attorney General’s Office led the charge against Corinthian and its subsidiaries, seeking to put an end to abusive practices that left students under a mountain of debt and far too often without the jobs Corinthian had falsely promised its degrees would provide.
The office ultimately obtained a $1.1 billion judgment against Corinthian on March 23, 2016.