Fresno Unified has a plan to help Latino students

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno Unified School District is hosting a Latino College Expo astatine the Fresno Convention Center, an lawsuit organizers anticipation volition assistance Latino students research their options aft precocious school.

According to the schoolhouse district, much than 50 colleges, universities, commercialized schools, and subject programs volition beryllium represented astatine the lawsuit connected Sep. 17. Students volition besides person entree to workshops connected fiscal aid, scholarships, and navigating higher education, including sessions specified arsenic “How to Survive successful College arsenic a First-Generation Student,” “Benefits of Going Out of State to College,” and “How to Find Money for College.”

The territory is besides providing proscription to assistance precocious schoolhouse students be the event.

“Our Latino College Expo is simply a large accidental for students to larn much astir a assortment of higher acquisition options, arsenic good arsenic the indispensable steps and readying indispensable to marque the palmy modulation to college,” Superintendent Misty Her said.

The lawsuit volition tally from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. connected Wednesday, Sept. 17, astatine the Fresno Convention Center.