Santa Ana College gives SAUSD students one free year, starting this fall
The community college announced this week that Santa Ana Unified School District students will receive free tuition their first year, beginning in September… Tuition will be paid by the nonprofit Santa Ana College Foundation, funded in part by city and Santa Ana College employees through payroll deductions, a $5 million state grant and Santa Ana College’s Centennial Scholarship Campaign. Santa Ana College’s tuition for full-time students is $1,104 a school year. About 85 percent of the students there, from low-income families, already receive tuition waivers through the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. Others get help from other state and federal grants.
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by Roxana Kopetman, The Orange County Register.