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How 'Mama Brown' changed students' lives by paying for college and so much more: 'It's not about the money' [edsource.org]

 

By Carolyn Jones and Andrew Reed, EdSource, July 29, 2021

For Gov. Gavin Newsom and anyone else promoting college savings accounts for low-income children, Oral Lee Brown has some advice:

“It’s not about the money.”

Brown, an Oakland real estate agent now in her 70s, has been promoting the same idea since 1987, when she “adopted” a class of first graders from Brookfield Elementary School in East Oakland, promising to pay their college costs if they stayed in school.

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