Joint Letter From Nearly 1,200 Organizations and Institutions Calling on Congress To #DoublePell

Coalition letter from a dozen organizations representing higher education advocacy, civil rights, business and workforce, and students urging the authors of AB 1456 (Medina, McCarty, Leyva) to adopt recommendations that would help ensure Cal Grant reform best supports California’s vulnerable students.

TICAS and partners submitted comments including recommendations to empower the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to be more proactive in preventing student harm, allow them to create and enforce stronger minimum operating standards for schools and protections for students, and to expand the Bureau’s capacity to respond in the event of a school closure.

Coalition letter from Californians for College Affordability urging the California State Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, Subcommittee 1 on Education to support increasing the number of annually available competitive Cal Grants in the 2021-22 state budget.

Letter from The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) and the Student Senate for California Community Colleges (SSCCC) to the chairs of the California State Senate and Assembly budget committees.

Coalition letter from Californians for College Affordability urging the California State Assembly Committee on Budget, Subcommittee 2 on Education Finance to support increasing the number of annually available competitive Cal Grants in the 2021-22 state budget.

Joint letter from the University of California Student Association (UCSA) and TICAS regarding proposed changes to the University of California’s Education Financing Model, urging the adoption of a hybrid approach that incorporates both differential self-help by family resources and a debt-free college pathway to best support under-resourced and underrepresented students.