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Amy DiPierro, for EdSource

Amy covers higher education. She was previously a data reporter for the Center for Public Integrity. While at Public Integrity, her reporting on students experiencing homelessness received a special citation from the Philip Meyer Journalism Award, which honors journalism using social science research methods. Amy previously reported for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif. and BusinessDen in Denver, Colo. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Stanford University, where she was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and contributed to projects at Big Local News.

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Trump wants to cut college access programs for low-income students; California educators are pushing back

Federal programs like Upward Bound and Talent Search enroll about 100,000 Californians. Can funding survive the bitter partisan divide?

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