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Recently, students opened a food pantry at the University of Louisville, joining similar programs at such local colleges as Bellarmine University, Spalding University and IU-Southeast.
Students often have access to thousands of dollars in financial aid from federal and state programs. But if they experience food insecurity – the condition of having limited or uncertain access to adequate food – they can risk falling behind in classes or dropping out of college completely.
Kentucky officials say the state has won a $24.5 million grant aimed at increasing the number of low-income students graduating from high school and enrolling in college or workforce training.
To Duvall, it’s even more important to improve the climate of a school with overcrowded classrooms. “It is about modeling accountable talk,” she says. “It is putting [social-emotional learning practices] in place—whether you have a class of one or a class of 41.”
A group of professors, educators and nonprofit representatives recently met in Las Vegas to plan how parents, students and community members can work together to lower the dropout rate among Latinos and encourage them to graduate.