From the San Francisco Chronicle: The presence of two words — “equity” and “inclusion” — on page 50 of a 5-year-old grant application just killed a program at UC Berkeley that for half a century helped thousands of East Bay teens recognize that they could go to college and even pay for it.
The canceled grant is one of 120 that the Trump administration has canceled across the country amid this fall’s college application season, with more likely to come.
...Trump’s Education Department canceled the $836,000 annual grant that supported UC Berkeley’s Educational Talent Search as of Sept. 30. Federal officials alerted program administrators on Sept. 15 — after they had welcomed 1,507 students in the Oakland and West Contra Costa Unified school districts and begun counseling them about the value of college and how to apply.
Educational Talent Search is one of eight nationwide anti-poverty programs that grew out of three originally authorized by Congress in the 1960s and that have long received bipartisan support. Known collectively as TRIO, they include such well-known staples as Upward Bound and Student Support Services...
Full story at https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-educational-talent-search-21144252.php.
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