Maria Carmen Vargas from the UC Santa Cruz GEAR UP program in Greenfield, California, was one of five recipients of the 2008 GEAR UP Parent Leadership Award presented today at the National Council for ...

HUNTINGTON — West Virginia Gear Up is hosting its 2025 GEAR UP U Summer Academy program at Marshall University this week. The program is designed to prepare students in the 10th and 11th grades for ...

Akron Public Schools' program to help low-income students prepare for college has been defunded. The U.S. Department of Education has canceled roughly $3.6 million of the $7 million it had promised to ...

Increasing pressure from school leaders, parents, and elected officials has so far not persuaded the Trump administration to restore the more than $30 million it abruptly eliminated for tutoring, ...

PVUSD students attend College Signing Day at UC Santa Cruz. This year marks 25 years of collaboration between the Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) and UC Santa Cruz’s GEAR UP program, ...

STATEWIDE – The U.S. Department of Education has canceled a $34.9 million federal grant for the Purdue University-run Indiana GEAR UP college-readiness program. The termination, effective immediately, ...

WINOOSKI — More than 2,000 students annually will receive support to prepare for college and careers, thanks to a renewed $31 million federal GEAR UP grant awarded to the Vermont Student Assistance ...