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Good morning. This is Melanie Asmar with Chalkbeat Colorado.

In education lingo, they’re called “stopouts”: students who left college and haven’t returned. New data shows promising trends for Colorado, but there are still hundreds of thousands of people in the state who have some college credit but no degree. Reporter Jason Gonzales has more in today’s top story.

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Colorado colleges have made progress re-enrolling students who left without finishing

National data shows there are over 623,000 Colorado residents who never finished college. And about 38 million nationally stopped before earning a credential.

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