CA colleges ignore law on student transcripts for debt

OAKLAND — In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five years later, 24 of the state’s 115 community colleges still said on their websites that students with unpaid balances could lose access to their transcripts, according to […] The post 5 years after California banned holding college students’ transcripts hostage for unpaid debt, some colleges neglect the law appeared first on The Hechinger Report.