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UVa Offers Free Tuition To Lower-Income Students

Crixell Matthews/VPM

This fall, the University of Virginia is offering free tuition to students from families making less than $80,000 a year. It’s one way they’re trying to increase economic diversity at the school.  But for a lot of other universities in Virginia, low to middle-income students often end up paying a lot more. In partnership with the Hechinger Report, Megan Pauly from VPM News reports.

Learn more about this story at vpm.org.