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Darryl McKellar has been teaching for 20 years. “I’m like Batman,” he says. “I use every trick in my utility belt to get a kid to buy into education.” Photo by Vanessa Rancano, KQED News

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How Redding, California, became an unlikely epicenter of modern Christian culture

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Not living in the dorms? Good luck figuring out what college is gonna cost

Housing costs — more than tuition — are crushing California’s low-income college students

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Housing costs — more than tuition — are crushing California’s low-income college students

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Thousands of college hopefuls could leave California—and never come back

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