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Parents' guide to SunSentinel.com: 2/25/09
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In the meantime...
The financial crisis and rising costs threaten to put college out of reach for many students, a new report suggests.
The report from the group ENLACE Florida says the cost of higher education in Florida has outpaced families' ability to pay. As the recession leaves people with less money, many middle class families in the $40,000 to $60,000 range, who may earn too much for federal Pell Grants and other forms of financial aid, could be especially hurt, the report suggests.
ENLACE, or Engaging Latino Communities for Education, studies academic trends among Hispanics and other under-represented groups and has released several reports scrutinizing higher education in Florida.
The group analyzed federal and state data. The report says that in 1995, undergraduate students in Florida borrowed an average of $2,968 per year. Now it's $4,719 per year.
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CORAL SPRINGS - Some day Jovian Belizare will be able to say that while he wasn't born in the back of a station wagon, he did draw his first independent breath in the back of a gas station.
On Tuesday, the day-old boy was keeping mum. He was snuggling in the arms of his delighted and grateful mother, Marie Belizare, and reuniting with the bus driver who helped bring him into the world, Mary Kilroy.
"Oh, it was so neat," said Kilroy. Belizare "was just so glad when it was over with. She couldn't stop crying. I couldn't believe it happened. I always thought I'd do CPR on somebody first."
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Gretchen Day-Bryant has a son in high school and a daughter in middle school. She’s lived to tell about the struggles of juggling little kids and work...
Joy Oglesby has an infant daughter and a sister 13 years her junior, whom she babies to the now-adult...
Cindy Kent Fort Lauderdale mother of three. Her kids span in ages from teenager to 20s...
Rafael Olmeda and his wife welcomed their first son in Feb. 2009, and he's helping raise two teenage stepdaughters...
Lois Solomon lives in Boca Raton with her husband and three daughters...
Anne Vasquez is the Online Editor in charge of overseeing SunSentinel.com. She is the mother of a 5-year-old boy and a newborn daughter.
Georgia East is the parent of a five-year-old girl, who came into the world weighing 1 pound, 13 ounces...
Brittany Wallman is the mother of Creed, 13, and Lily, 6, and is married...
Chris Tiedje is the Social Media Coordinator, and father of two boys and a girl all under the age of seven.
