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Bill to collect parental-status data for college students draws bipartisan testimony on barriers faced by student parents
Summary
Delegate Ken Kerr and advocates urged the Appropriations Committee to require higher education institutions to collect demographic data on student parents to target services and improve completion rates; panelists and student witnesses described caregiving, childcare closures and poverty-level incomes as drivers of low completion.
Delegate Ken Kerr presented House Bill 298 to the Appropriations Committee as a measure to require collection of parental‑status data for postsecondary students. Kerr said data are currently not collected statewide and that without it institutions cannot design targeted supports to improve completion by student parents.
Dr. Anne Hoffman of Frederick Community College said parenting students face financial burdens, scheduling…
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