Uncertainty reigns as students with need face rising tuition, decreasing aid options

Counselors at Lincoln High School in Tacoma are proud of Gabriel Dumbrique, a senior who’s taking Advanced Placement classes and calculus, maintaining a 3.8 GPA and leading Key Club, a community service group.

In the fall, Dumbrique will be the first in his family to go to college, and he’s a poster child for the school’s effort to get more underrepresented, lower-income students into accelerated programs and off to a university when they graduate.