Strengthening Cal Grants to Better Serve Today’s Latino Students
Cal Grants provide more than $1.6 billion in need-based grants to California college students. However, many low-income students are left out of the program, and the grant that the lowest income students receive – Cal Grant B – has stagnated.
This fact sheet details the extent to which Latino students are served by the Cal Grant program, and the ways in which the program can be improved to serve them better.