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Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Just before her senior year at Hazleton Area High School (HAHS), Rosa Ramirez Almanzar called her mother in the Dominican Republic. Rosa was in tears. “Mom,” she said, “I came here to study, but I think I have to go back to the D.R. after I graduate. Getting into college here is so hard, and I don’t think I can afford it even if I got in.”
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