From the Kansas City Star:
Forty-six of the 125 Kauffman Scholars are graduating or are on track to graduate by next year. That is a better success rate than most low-income students trying to complete college degrees. National research by the Pathways to Postsecondary Success project at UCLA paints a grim picture. According to the 2012 report, 47 percent of students in poverty do not get access to post-secondary education, compared to 24 percent of students not in poverty. Of those students who do enter college, 28 percent of students in poverty earn bachelor’s degrees, compared to 53 percent for students not in poverty. The education system, as a whole, continues to bare what the report called “persistent inequities,” said lead researcher Cynthia Feliciano at the University of California, Irvine. “Major leaks” in the college pipeline continue to reproduce “social class,” the report concluded. “There have to be multiple efforts to help low-income students succeed,” Feliciano said. “Because there are multiple challenges these students face.”

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