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Microchip Companies Create Child Care Programs to Win Federal Funds

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This issue is not a social issue, it’s an economic issue and frankly, it’s a simple question of math,” Raimondo wrote in an emailed statement to The 19th. “If It’s why Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has focused on addressing barriers they have historically faced in these industries — and the most obvious barrier is child care.

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California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

The Hechinger Report

While policymakers didnt catch on right away, well-off and well-educated white parents did, seeing the economic benefits of bilingualism for their children very clearly. By 2030, it wants half of California students on a path to becoming bilingual. Flores thinks the state is at least moving in the right direction.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

But in the coming decades, politicians of both parties would respond to economic downturns by cutting higher education funding, causing tuition to rise. The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”.

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

The Hechinger Report

And the United States remains stubbornly in 13th place in the world in the proportion of its 25- to 34-year-olds with degrees , according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, behind South Korea, Canada, Japan, Russia, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway and other countries.

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