Federal student loan program expanding
Esteem Brumfield's parents never sent their son to school. So in 2008, when the 21-year-old announced he would go to college rather than pursue the religious life his parents planned for him, Brumfield found himself on his own and penniless.
He got a job, enrolled in Berkeley City College and found a homeless shelter. Now he is hoping that changes to the federal student loan program will propel him to graduate school for a master's degree in teaching and - eventually - into law school.
"Going from homelessness to grad school is a far-reaching dream for me," Brumfield said this week.
Signed into federal law on March 30, the education portion of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act snagged fewer headlines than the
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