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New England Educational Opportunity Programs in the News

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Maine

• Trump administration plans to abolish TRIO college access programs; Collins wants to save them
• Op Ed - TRIO should not be on Trump’s chopping block
• College administrators warn of adverse effects in Maine if TRIO program funding is cut
• Maine TRIO and GEAR UP Advocacy Day - WABI coverage
• Obituary for Jerry Ellis
• Courtney Hatton overcomes obstacles, writes her own success story
• Upward Bound Alumni and Parents to Mail over 1200 Letters to the Department of Education
• How Upward Bound helps low-income, first-generation students succeed
• When girls rule the school and why it matters
• Mainer Tells Congress poverty can be beaten
• How To Fill the 'Skills Gap'
• Maine Voices: Upward Bound challenges future first-generation college students *
• Upward Bound opens doors for students *

New Hampshire

• New Hampshire Delegation Demands Department of Education Deliver Federal Funding Notices to New Hampshire TRIO Programs
• Shaheen, Collins Urge Education Secretary to Immediately Release TRIO Upward Bound Grants to Current Recipients
• Concerns grow among New Hampshire educators about withheld federal funds
• Hassan, Goodlander meet with educators to discuss impact of DOE closure on Granite State students
• Local, state educators cite uncertainty over continued federal support *
• Programs to support N.H.'s neediest students in jeopardy because of Trump administration's proposed cuts *
• NEACAC Newsletter featuring University of New Hampshire ETS Advisor Steve McGrath (PDF)
• Educational Talent Search at 50

Vermont

• TRIO and GEAR UP Students Attend 2017 New England Student Leadership Conference
• Leahy: Congress Must Make College Affordable
• Goal: Help students get into college, and succeed
• Upward Bound Students Celebrate College Success (podcast)

Massachusetts

• It started with a school 'timeout.' Then came the police.
• How Trump Budget Cuts Would Affect Massachusetts (PDF)
• BC Student Natalee Deaette Named Truman Scholar
• UB and ETS Alumna Joins Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (PDF)
• MCC GEAR UP grad is named an alum leader
• Meet the Valedictorians
• Do You Notice Sequestration? In Holyoke, they do. *

Connecticut

• CT TRIO programs at risk of losing federal funding – CT Insider
• Arrivals and Departures: UConn Excels at Retaining Students

Rhode Island

• First in their families to plan on college (article about TRIO Day 2023)
• Evidence-Based Research: The Impact of the College Crusade GEAR UP Program in RI
• Viola Davis Is Living Her Dream

Older Articles

College-prep programs for the poor slashed in Trump's budget *

At 50, Upward Bound Still Opens Pathway to College

Examining the Studies *

The Return of the Sequester

Education Opportunity Key

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