The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. Moreover, in Louisiana, 2 percent was put toward childcare in 2015, down from 34 percent in 2000. Photo: Della Hasselle.

Primary Sources 84

Primary Sources Advocacy Government Education 84

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

In fact, the federal government provided child care subsidies to just one in six children eligible to receive them in 2015, according to the U.S. Their ire was reserved for the state, which they saw as the primary source of subsidy funding. Credit: Photo: Lillian Mongeau/Hechinger Report. Department of Health and Human Services.

Government 138

Government Primary Sources Elementary School Humanities 138

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all.

K-12 99

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 99