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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. It’s not just a feeling that has Cole-Ochoa believing that the culture of caring is working at his school — numbers are backing it up.

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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.

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We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

The Hechinger Report

We will see the short-term impacts,” said Cynthia Osborne, director of the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at the University of Texas at Austin. “We The difficulties kids experience now may affect their ability as adults to hold down jobs; they may get sick more easily and die younger. “We