"the institutions serving the largest share of low income students and students of color are often the same institutions that struggle to provide the support students need because they are chronically underfunded."
"The innovative ideas we will be discussing today such as dual enrollment in high school and additional students support services in two and four year colleges among many others have the potential to s..."
"our Nation spends $5 billion less educating students of color in the higher ed system than it does White students."
"Every year three is 600,0000 folks that should be graduating and they would have graduated but instead they are coming out of incarceration."
"The institutions serving the largest share of low income students and students of color are often the same institutions that struggle to provide the support students need because they are chronically ..."
"If we aren't able to get students of color and low income students to that baccalaureate level, it's exacerbating the racial and economic inequality in our country."
"Our Nation spends $5 billion less educating students of color in the higher ed system than it does White students."
"The importance of today's hearing cannot be overstated."
"One of my life's missions has been to put up a permanent roadblock on the destructive and demoralizing path that has entrapped too many boys and young men of color and other at risk youth."
"We also need to remove the barriers to employment for those with arrest records and other criminal backgrounds."
"We heard how the Protecting the Right to Organize Act can safeguard the fundamental human rights to organize a union."