Washington’s budget battles have thwarted a plan for tuition-free community college, but locally, schools like Harper College are offering such programs to some students.
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Dr. Lori Cortez, SVCC’s Dean of Institutional Advancement, says they’ve been planning this program with local business and school leaders for a few years. Since January, they’ve started fundraising for it before it opens to students in 2022.
“We have reached the $2 million mark and we are fairly certain we will be able to secure an additional million dollars in the next 60 days, she said. And so that puts us well ahead of schedule.”
They’ve even had some young students investing in the future of their education amid the student debt crisis.
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