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actionable social justice moment for our Washington State CTC system.</span></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Previously,
adult students who did not possess a high school credential (such as a HS diploma or a GED) were NOT eligible for state or federal financial aid</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">unless
they passed a high-stakes test or earned a quarter of college credits first</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">.
This policy ended up excluding most of these students from benefiting from the state and financial aid needed to begin taking college classes. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This
was a major policy barrier that disproportionately impacted students from "systemically non-dominant populations"</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
(read more about this term and supporting framework created by </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://adobe.ly/32oFZtd" title="https://adobe.ly/32oFZtd"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif;">Dr.
Debra Jenkins</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Thanks
to the efforts of our amazing Basic Education for Adults (BEdA) colleagues with federal policy makers, </span><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">the</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><b>Ability
to Benefit</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">provision
of the Higher Education Act (HEA), now allows us to connect adult students without a high school credential to</span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> two
major state and federal tuition assistance programs: the Washington College Grant and the Federal Pell Grant. </span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks to this new policy win, students can access these grant programs without testing, and without having to figure out how
to pay for their first quarter of college.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Please see the attachment for guidance regarding this fantastic new opportunity, and</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> consider
how you can leverage this to provide aid to students who have historically been left out because of policy barriers.</span></p>
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