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Grandparents and advocates press committee to extend tuition waivers to kinship guardians
Summary
Grandparents, guardians and commission leaders urged the Joint Committee on Higher Education to amend the statute that grants tuition-and-fee waivers so it explicitly covers young adults raised by kinship guardians and grandparents, not only those who were in DCF custody.
Grandparents, guardians and advocates urged the Joint Committee on Higher Education Friday to extend existing tuition-and-fee waivers so they explicitly cover young adults raised by kinship guardians or grandparents, not only those who were formerly in the custody of the Department of Children and Families.
Why it matters: Several witnesses said tens of thousands of Massachusetts children live with grandparents or relatives; many caregivers are on fixed incomes and cannot afford college for those children. Advocates called the proposed change an equity fix that would align the law with what local guardians and family advocates described as an already functioning reality.
Representative Anthony Donato told the committee that thousands of grandchildren are raised by grandparents,…
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