Budget impasse hurts neediest students
…These are the state’s neediest students who rely on these funds to buy books and bus passes and make other critical beginning-of-the-semester purchases, it’s a certainty that the lack of a Cal Grant payment acted as a barrier to some students coming back to school," he said. Compounding the problem, the community colleges have not received about $660 million in operating funds the state owes them for the period between July and the end of August. The amount will increase to more than $1.1 billion if a state budget is not passed by late September…
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by Tanya Schevitz, Carrie Sturrock, and Charles Burress, The San Francisco Chronicle.