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‘We’re aides, not maids.’ How one high-demand job shows education system’s failings

The Hechinger Report

If those things aren’t fixed, the suffering will be felt not only by the “millions and millions of people [who] work very hard at very difficult and important jobs and get poverty wages,” said Paul Osterman, a professor of human resources and management at MIT and author of the book “Who Will Care for Us?” For years the U.S.

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

The Hechinger Report

Walz also required every state agency, including the department of education , to appoint tribal-state liaisons and formally consult with tribal governments. But Congress has never come close to meeting that goal, and today the federal government distributes only about 15 percent of the total cost of educating students with disabilities.

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