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For Too Many Learners, Working While in College Is a Barrier to Career Growth - Commentary

Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts and the head of the nonprofit Education at Work, writes:  

Earlier this year, the Biden Administration urged colleges and universities to lend a hand to the nation’s K-12 schools. Specifically, it called on postsecondary institutions to use at least 15% of their annual allocation of roughly $1.2 billion in Federal Work-Study Program funds to employ more college students as tutors, mentors and student success coaches in public schools.


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