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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

Between 2004 and 2014, Ohio cut funding for a college grant program for low-income students by 33 percent. Turner attended Ashtabula’s high school, Lakeside High, where almost every student is economically disadvantaged. And she helped launch the school’s first Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations this school year. “We

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New Orleans schools still struggle with integration

The Hechinger Report

She was not happy with the first school she and her husband chose, but found a match in 2014 when a spot opened at Homer A. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged.

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How one Minnesota university more than doubled its native student graduation rate

The Hechinger Report

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. Its average six-year graduation rate for American Indian and Alaska Native students between 2014 and 2017 was 45 percent, above the national average.)

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Coronavirus means school food is free across the U.S. What if it stayed that way?

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Yakima, an agricultural hub surrounded by orchards amid dry hills, was hit hard by both the pandemic and the attendant economic collapse. The need created by the pandemic’s economic shock is unprecedented, McDonough said. “I know they can’t learn when they’re worried about when they’re going to be fed.”.

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The Modern Regulation of Environmental Protection In Kentucky

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These were the years when dams were political tools and economic stimulus. 5) Flint, Michigan, 2014. (6) 5) Flint, Michigan, 2014. (6) The Jamestown plant was closed permanently in 2014, laying off the then remaining 600 employees. (39) In 1962, it came out of its banks, flooding Clay City. Kentucky has many such lakes.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, federal officials unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul the beleaguered bureau, which had long struggled to deliver better student outcomes with anemic funding. The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance.

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