Austin Community College wants Lyric Wardlow back in school. Members of the ACC Cabinet, campus operations and public affairs departments pooled donations and paid off $332 in Pell grant debt that Wardlow owed when she needed to drop out of classes after a family member died.
Now the once-homeless teen can restart school with a clean slate. The student services and special populations services departments also are working with Wardlow and her advocate at LifeWorks, the nonprofit agency that nominated her for the Statesman Season for Caring program, about other solutions to help Wardlow return to school.
Wardlow is one of 12 families featured in the State…
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