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Colleges sign on for a 15-step program to “erase equity gaps” in completion

The Hechinger Report

And after discovering that scholarships and loans were not quite covering some students’ bills, the university developed an emergency fund for retention grants to help them re-enroll. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was among the first schools in the country to adopt the plan last year.

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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

Teacher preparation programs, Superintendent Todd Lile said, are not producing graduates who are ready to do this work, leaving districts like his with steep professional development costs. By 2030, it wants half of California students on a path to becoming bilingual. But startup costs for dual-language programs are expensive.