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

The Hechinger Report

The new system aims to provide child care for an average of $10 a day in licensed settings, with plans to create an additional 250,000 spots for children by 2026. For many years, the province of Quebec has shown the potential benefits of government funding for child care. Now, an offshoot of that recommendation has come to fruition.

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How a decline in community college students is a big problem for the economy

The Hechinger Report

million jobs projected by 2026 in the state that will require some training, but less than a four-year bachelor’s degree. The governor of Nevada in January called for focusing community colleges there more closely on workforce training programs, proposing a new government agency to run them.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools’ mission shifted during the pandemic with healthcare, shelter and adult ed

The Hechinger Report

A majority of public schools have begun providing services that are far afield from traditional academics, including healthcare, housing assistance, childcare and food aid. Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether schools will continue to embrace their expanded mission after federal pandemic funds expire in March 2026.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

And she says while some of these schools are doing better than others, she’d like to see the federal government hold them all accountable under the so-called Gainful Employment Rule. Education Department is finally set to go into effect in 2026. Jon: Right, the Gainful Employment Rule that sounds very wonky.

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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 schools remoteness on a 518-acre reservation the government forcibly relocated the Havasupai people to more than 150 years ago makes it a challenge to staff, and chronic turnover required the few educators who remained to teach multiple grades at once. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations.

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