New Bloomberg Effort to Help Low-Income Students

Bloomberg Philanthropies and other nonprofit groups will today announce a new effort to help talented low-income high school students get into and succeed in college, The New York Times reported. The effort will involve hiring 130 full-time college counselors and 4,000 college students who will be part-time counselors. With video chat and other tools, the counselors will attempt to provide the kind of guidance offered at high schools that serve wealthy students.