Thousands of students lost their chance for free tuition under the state's expanded Cal Grant program because community colleges failed to file required grade reports, according to an Assembly report released Monday. The colleges, including about two dozen around Los Angeles and every one in Orange and Ventura counties, submitted only a small number of grades to the California Student Aid Commission, the study found. Grade reports were required for the 11,250 grants that the billion-dollar …showed first 75 words of 636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 636 total…GPA verification." Many Students Unaware of Procedure Jan Braunstein, vice president of institutional development at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, said the campus was updating its software, so workers had to hand tally the 89 GPA reports it sent to the aid commission. She also said campus officials did not know the unsubmitted reports would remove so many students from the competition. The officials had believed that more students would file the reports themselves, she added.