Black Joy Consortium for Reimagining Education 2023 Platform Priorities
April 04, 2023 by EdTrust The Black Joy Consortium is aligned to a vision for a reimagined education system that fully prepares Black students…
Public Comment to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) on Improving Campus Racial Climate for Students of Color
March 06, 2023 by Jessie Hernandez-Reyes Good afternoon. My name is Jessie Hernandez-Reyes. I’m a senior policy analyst for higher education at The Education Trust, which works to dismantle racial and economic barriers in the U.S.…
Eliminating Barriers to a Higher Education for Undocumented Students Is an Urgent Need
February 28, 2023 by Christian Penichet-Paul 
Want Economic Growth? Start by Investing in Child Care
February 27, 2023 by Carrie Gillispie, Antoinette Waller Politicians often tout healthy signs of the economy: people getting jobs, buying homes, and going back to school. But in a recent Delaware survey, 4 out of 5 families lack…
Higher Education Access and Success for Undocumented Students Start with 9 Key Criteria
February 22, 2023 by EdTrust Over 427,000 Undocumented Students Face Challenges in Higher Education, Workforce and Accessing Social Services New Ed Trust Report Finds How Government Can Provide Necessary Immigration Reforms WASHINGTON – Immigration reform…
Key Criteria for Undocumented Student Higher Education Access and Success
February 22, 2023 by EdTrust Ed Trust researchers analyzed nine criteria in the 15 states with the largest shares of undocumented college students to determine whether state policies are helping or hurting undocumented students’ ability to attend college and how access and success for this underserved student population could be improved.
State of the Union – Child Care as a National Priority
February 08, 2023 by Carrie Gillispie “Let’s make sure working parents can afford to raise a family with sick days, paid family medical leave, affordable child care. That’s going to enable millions more people to go…
Teaching Tolerance Amid Contentious Turbulence
January 23, 2023 by Letisha Marrero As the parent of a Black and Latino LGBTQ+ teenager, I worry for my child’s safety more now than when he was a fragile newborn or a precocious toddler. There…
Lack of Access to Child Care Subsidies Is a Barrier to Student-Parent Completion & Success
December 19, 2022 by Antoinette J. Waller, Gabriel Montague, Brittani Williams “I make too much to qualify for child care assistance but not enough to afford child care”– a student-father enrolled in a bridge program between a two-year and a four-year…