Boosting college rates for foster youth
Bill gives preference in class registration
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It takes exceptional tenacity – and a measure of good fortune – for a child who grows up in foster care in California to make it through college. A bill that would ease the way for these students moves a step forward tomorrow, when it goes before the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 194, introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Jim Beall of San Jose, would give current and former foster youth priority registration for classes at California State University and California community colleges, and urges the University of California to do the same. The
