New legislation, signed into the state budget Monday, will cover the entire cost of attending a UC, Cal State, or California community college.
Currently, there are about 60,000 youth in foster care in California, with more than three thousand of them in San Diego County. A recent survey found that more than 90% of them want to go on to college, but currently only about 4% achieve that dream.
“It is a game-changer, an absolute game-changer for young people in California,” said state Senator Angelique Ashby, who authored SB 307. This legislation will cover the entire cost of college for foster youth here in California at a UC, Cal State or California community college.
She said that it provides a promise to those teens in the foster care system who have done the hard work needed to make it to college.
“The state of California has done a good job historically of paying for tuition for foster youth who find their way to college,” added Ashby, “but it didn’t cover everything, including housing, which for foster youth, then you might as well cover nothing if you’re not going to cover the housing.”
Source. CBS 8
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