February 7, 2010

For This U. of Phoenix Student, Perseverance Pays Off

Perseverance Pays Off for a U. of Phoenix Student 1

Joey Pulone for The Chronicle

Ms. Leach, a single mother of two, studies on her commute from a Baltimore suburb to the U. of Phoenix, in Timonium, Md.

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Joey Pulone for The Chronicle

Ms. Leach, a single mother of two, studies on her commute from a Baltimore suburb to the U. of Phoenix, in Timonium, Md.

By Piper Fogg

Timonium, Md.

Cassandra Leach always planned to go to college. As an honors student and editor of her high-school newspaper, she dreamed of a career in journalism. But after a couple of years at Morgan State University, in Baltimore, she ran out of money and had to leave the historically black college.

Her plans to return dissolved when, at 19, she got pregnant. She eventually got out of a bad relationship with the baby's father, only to get pregnant again six months later with someone else. Going

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