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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

A Hispanic Heritage Month event that Grimes started in Russellville High School has now grown into a big districtwide celebration , where students learn about different cultures and traditions, perform dances, read celebrated authors and research historical figures. It has been scrapped.

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Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care

Anthropology News

This market-based reform would help reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas (Project 2025, p. 388) The Trump Administration, in line with ideas laid out in the Project 2025 plan, has taken dramatic steps to undermine higher education and constrain the pursuit of knowledge on university campuses. Absolutely. Feldman, J.

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Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61 

The Hechinger Report

Project 2025, the conservative policy handbook organized by the Heritage Foundation, which the Trump administration has been following closely, calls for eliminating Head Start altogether. I think its terrible, Dill said. But I will say this: We have great research.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, the right-wing Heritage Foundation proposed turning the BIE into an education savings account, or ESA, which would grant families a portion of their childs per-pupil funding to spend on private school tuition, home-school supplies and other educational expenses. That same year, the late Arizona Sen. public schools.

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The dark future of American child care

The Hechinger Report

The proposal would “help address the shortage of child care through smart removal of cost-­increasing red tape,” testified Elizabeth Patton, state director of Americans for Prosperity Kansas, a conservative advocacy group.