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In October, state legislators ordered the California State University (CSU) to expand admission preference to place-bound students when campuses and popular majors are over-crowded. Place-bound students include older students with families and/or jobs that are not able to commute long distances and have difficulty leaving their immediate geographic area to attend school, so they may […]

A report by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit group that carries out economic and social policy research, found that geographical factors play a role in how much a state spends on children and that there are substantial differences between states. States in the Southern and Western regions of the United States spend less per child […]