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Banda plodded through Zoom classes and graduated high school in 2021. She became the first in her family to go to college when she enrolled at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert campus.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As the world settled into pandemic life, students who graduated from high school during the COVID-19 crisis started ...