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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

ED Surge

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum.

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Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child care

The Hechinger Report

She arrived at a city office in Queens one winter afternoon in 2019 armed with evidence of her living situation and meager income. The program has never been funded at the level that it needs to be to be able to meet the need, said Rachel Wilensky, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy.