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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

Dual-language students have been found to score higher than their peers on both math and English language arts exams by middle school. They also get higher scores on the ACT in high school, setting them up to be more competitive in college admissions. By 2030, it wants half of California students on a path to becoming bilingual.