Five Mississippi residents talk about what daily life is like for trans students in the state and how the new law affects them.
Molly Minta
Mississippi Today
Higher education reporter at Mississippi Today in partnership with Open Campus.
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Here’s how to apply for the FAFSA
Advice on documents to have on-hand and how to avoid common mistakes when applying for federal financial aid.
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‘It’s bittersweet’: Students, faculty reflect on college in the time of COVID
College students and faculty reflect on what it’s been like to attend school and teach classes in a pandemic, which first disrupted their academic and personal lives almost a year ago.
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Fewer Mississippi students are applying for financial aid. Here’s what officials are doing about it.
Compared with last year, 18 percent fewer students had filled out the FAFSA. The decline is worse in schools with higher populations of working-class students and students of color.
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Most recipients of financial aid in Mississippi are from wealthier families
“We’re excluding the highest need students,” says the director of a statewide nonprofit group.
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Mississippi is getting $1 billion in stimulus funds for education. Here’s how it can be spent.
The second wave of funding is nearly three times the amount the state received last year from the education portion of the CARES Act.