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Community colleges focus on keeping former foster students from falling through the educational cracks

by Bill Britt | OW Contributor March 17, 2016October 26, 2021

Shari Elizabeth Walker is a former foster care kid who applied to a community college at the age of 18 as “a hustle” to avoid being homeless. Up until six years ago, when foster youth turned 18, they were essentially kicked out of the foster care system and left to survive on their own.

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