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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

To make Ohio an attractive option for businesses and jobs, the state is pushing for 1 million more adults to get a certificate or degree by 2025. Turner attended Ashtabula’s high school, Lakeside High, where almost every student is economically disadvantaged. Gonzalez, whose parents are Mexican immigrants, speaks Spanish.

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OPINION: Latinos find the deck stacked against them in this state

The Hechinger Report

The state faces a looming deficit of more than two million individuals with degrees or credentials by 2025. Higher education has always been regarded as both a vaccine against and an antidote to social and economic stagnation — and this is true more than ever as increasing numbers of jobs require college degrees.

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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

It is important to understand] the concept of how you suppress people to exploit them economically. These same funders of over a hundred partners are behind Project 2025, a 900-page, conservative extremist mandate to roll back civil rights at all levels of Federal government. Why should we all be alarmed?

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The Battle to Protect Archaeological Sites in the West Bank

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Beyond bombings and other military activities, curfews and checkpoints have severely hindered the efforts of the West Banks Palestinian archaeologists, heritage organizations, and security personnel to access, monitor, and safeguard these vulnerable sites. Demand for valuable objects has long posed a threat to Palestines cultural heritage.

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

The Hechinger Report

The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance. Tourism provides an economic bedrock for the Havasupai economy, though many families rely on government assistance. Vides, the teacher, struggled with his decision to quit. public schools.

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States Turn to Employers to Boost Child Care Benefits

ED Surge

This is actually an economic issue. The Heritage Foundation, the conservative group that crafted Project 2025 , a proposed blueprint for former President Donald Trump’s potential second term in office, calls for Congress to encourage on-site employee child care, saying it “puts the least stress on the parent-child bond.”

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States are turning to employers to boost child care benefits 

The Hechinger Report

This is actually an economic issue. She sees child care as both an economic and social issue. “I “That’s why you actually need to have participation between both employers and government in order to really normalize it and say, ‘This is not a social issue. This isn’t a mom issue. This is a family issue,’” Chang said. Related: D.C.