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Jan 19, 2021 3:04 PM EDT Kamarree Williams had been on a path to college since before he learned long division. A 2020 high school graduate from Marin City, California, Williams had entered an after-school college prep program, Bridge the Gap, when he was in third grade. During high school, he took dual enrollment courses at the two-year College of Marin. Williams, who is now 18, had hoped to attend the college after graduation, transfer to a four-year school and eventually own a restaurant one day. The decline in first-time enrollment at community colleges was a staggering 21 percent with Black, Hispanic and Native American first-year students recording even steeper drops, between 28 and 29 percent. ....