One piece of the puzzle: Universities say study on high parent loan debt accurate but incomplete
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Students move into Toussaint Hall, the newly opened dormitory on the campus of Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Conn. Aug. 24, 2018.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
A recent Wall Street Journal report that examines the level of debt parents take on to give their kids a college education paints an incomplete picture, according to officials from some of the Connecticut higher education institutions that find themselves toward the top of the list.
“It is one piece of the puzzle,” said Julie Savino, executive director of University Financial Assistance at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield.
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A model for the nation: Mothers hope in-progress brick garden will show gravity of gun violence loss
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Marlene Miller-Pratt speaks the New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence in November. Celeste Robinson-Fulcher is to the left.Ben Lambert / Hearst Connecticut Media /
NEW HAVEN There will be more than 600 bricks in the garden, each representing a life cut short by gun violence in New Haven since 1976, many of them by people wielding illegal and gray market guns.
Each will mark the end of a person’s life and a family’s pain.