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How Louisiana's Richest Students Go To College on the Backs of the Poor [hechingerreport.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 11/1/192:59 AM

By Emmanuel Felton, The Hechinger Report, October 30, 2019 Rodney Woods was on the fence about applying to Nicholls State University, a four-year public institution a 20-minute walk from his mother’s house in Louisiana’s Bayou Region, a rural area of the state dotted with sugar cane fields and mud-colored swamps. He had been on campus a few times. Both he and his mother loved to practice their photography skills among the long-slung red-brick buildings clustered around the school’s tidy...

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