Federal financial aid is the engine of the country’s higher education system, pouring billions in student loans and grants ...

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Joanne Scott had been without full-time work for about two decades and was struggling to reenter the workforce. Then she learned this year about a short-term pharmacy technician program at Mt. San ...

Two years ago, Camille Charleston moved from Haiti to the United States, hoping to escape “survival mode” and pursue the American dream. Charleston, 29, didn’t have enough money to pay for college, ...

Delivering on the promise Workforce Pell is about to be in the hands of colleges. getty When Workforce Pell passed last ...

California is racing to stand up a complicated new financial-aid pipeline for the federal Workforce Pell program, meant to ...

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Newly minted high school graduates listen to speeches from their classmates during commencement exercises on June 12, 2025, ...

When the U.S. Department of Education cited short-term workforce programs as a priority for grants from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), community college leaders ...