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in 2019 after officials visited Tennessee and Dallas, which have similar locally run free college programs.
Many students who get full financial aid from the federal government might not get AlamoPROMISE assistance, but the program picks up the full cost for middle-income or working-class families that don’t get full grants or qualify for Pell grants, said Mike Flores, chancellor of the Alamo Colleges District.In the first class helped by AlamoPROMISE, 92 percent of the students were students of color and came from schools where fewer than half were going to college at all, Flores said.
The organizers of the Dallas and Tennessee programs had told them that there was power in telling parents and students that tuition and fees would be paid.Additional support services, higher attendance All schools in the Alamo Colleges District have student advocacy centers that help students get food, clothing and other assistance.
"The American Community Survey, the census, gave San Antonio in 2018 the highest urban poverty rate in the nation, and that really is tied to educational attainment levels," Flores said,"and we know a credential can change the trajectory of a family." Gonzalez hopes that with the money she has saved by studying her first two years at San Antonio College, she will be able to afford enroll in the music program at the University of Texas at Austin.
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