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Dual enrollment has exploded. But it’s hard to tell if it’s helping more kids get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 Figures released last week show that dual enrollment grew another 7 percent in the fall of 2024 from a year earlier, even as the number of traditional college freshmen fell. Dual enrollment is exploding. That’s up from 1.5 That’s up from 1.5

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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

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. Dr. Barry Zuckerman, who created the first medical-legal partnership in Boston more than 30 years ago, saw the need for family advocacy first hand during his childhood, in the 1950s.

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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

ED Surge

That has caused a lot of anxiety among traditional public school advocates, and a lot of anxiety with progressives and Democrats who just really oppose this. In 2022, the state division got creative. In 2022, New Orleans voters passed a local property tax to generate $21 million per year for child care for infants through 3-year-olds.

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Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report. Canadian labor groups have also supported the efforts , something that has recently become a more prominent strategy in the United States, especially after efforts to pass child care legislation faltered in 2022.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

The Hechinger Report

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. This doesn’t help low-income families.” This doesn’t help low-income families.”

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. Many disability advocates balked at the findings, published in December 2022, on social media.

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