Community Colleges - A Sign That the Higher Education Plan Could Work

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There's a lot of reasons why students may not make it to the finished line or the transfer line. Community colleges are a lot less affordable than people often think. Students face fees, child care, housing, transportation and books. Ikra had to think about her family, my mam died from cancer in 18. She hasn't gone back to school like she thought she might have done.

President Biden wants to give Americans four more years of free school: two years of pre-K and two of community college. In a two-part series, Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah explores the challenges of expanding public education.

This episode was reported by Haleema Shah, fact checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, edited by Matt Collette with help from Jillian Weinberger, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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