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Fewer Mississippi students are applying for financial aid. Here’s what officials are doing about it.

Molly Minta
February 11, 2021

Compared with last year, 18 percent fewer students had filled out the FAFSA. The decline is worse in schools with higher populations of working-class students and students of color.

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Most recipients of financial aid in Mississippi are from wealthier families

Molly Minta
February 8, 2021

“We’re excluding the highest need students,” says the director of a statewide nonprofit group.

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Mississippi is getting $1 billion in stimulus funds for education. Here’s how it can be spent.

Kate RoyalsandMolly Minta
January 28, 2021

The second wave of funding is nearly three times the amount the state received last year from the education portion of the CARES Act.

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Fewer Mississippi students are applying for financial aid. Here’s what officials are doing about it.

Most recipients of financial aid in Mississippi are from wealthier families

Mississippi is getting $1 billion in stimulus funds for education. Here’s how it can be spent.

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