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A new report from the Hamilton Project at Brookings calls for a new grant program to address unmet needs of low-income student-parents.
The report -- "Helping women to Succeed in Higher-Education: Supporting Student-Parents with Child Care" -- finds that in 2011, there were more than 5 million students who had dependents of their own and that 3.4 million students are estimated to be mothers, of which 2 million are single mothers.
Bridget Terry Long, a professor of education and economics at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the report's author proposes expanding the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program, which supports low-income parents by providing them with access to campus-based child-care services.
