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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I She remembers being named valedictorian of her junior high, and as a result winning a scholarship to St. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed).

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Seeking asylum in a time of Covid

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, immigrants have been ravaged by the virus globally, as they’ve endured much higher risk of infection than native-born populations while their jobs have also been decimated by the economic downturn. Soon after, the elementary-aged kids trooped to their new school, Stansbury, and Joaquín started at West Lake STEM Junior High.