Two years of free community college may soon become a reality for 2.1 million students in California through Assembly Bill 2. The measure is a more aggressive version of 2017's Assembly Bill 19, or the California College Promise. That program dispersed $46 million to the state's 114 community colleges with the...
What Is Central Valley Promise? 1,600 Students Find Out.
When Matthew Rodrigues grows up, he wants to attend college to become a nurse or a doctor. "I think going to college is very important in life," said Rodrigues, a sixth-grade student at Jefferson Elementary School in Dinuba. Friday morning, Rodrigues and 1,600 other sixth-graders got a taste of what...