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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

Solving chronic absenteeism isn’t easy and involves building human relationships among teachers, parents and students. Department of Education updated the threshold for chronic absenteeism in 2016-17 from 15 days to 10 percent of the school year, which equals 18 days in schools that are in session for 180 days a year.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

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Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two. He said veteran studies is more about the long-term impacts of war than the logistics of arming and deploying forces.

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Eligible for job and college aid, half of Tennesseans with disabilities get nothing

The Hechinger Report

Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. She had spent 12 years as a senior education advocate at the Disability Law & Advocacy Center of Tennessee, advising other parents on how to get through the system.

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As more youth struggle with behavior and traditional supports fall short, clinicians are partnering with lawyers to help

The Hechinger Report

Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 Last year, the U.S. A recent survey of U.S.

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How Mississippi’s districts are separated into haves and have-nots

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: In some cash-strapped Mississippi school districts, families only have to drive one county over to see what a well-resourced school district looks like. A partial explanation: The 2016 report didn’t include districts classified by the U.S. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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How rural families came to rely on Head Start for basic child care and so much more

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Leave this field empty if you're human: In Mississippi, with its disproportionately large rural population, Head Start centers have a deep impact on children and families, according to Nita Norphlet-Thompson, the executive director for the Mississippi Head Start Association. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

Related: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year. Third, for students of color, the financial aid process can feel like a maze riddled with unnecessary barriers and dead ends.

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