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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Closing that gap and getting kids to continue their training after high school is especially important here: 74 percent of jobs will require post-secondary education by 2020. The state estimates that its population of working adults will be 43 percent non-white by 2040; by 2050 Hispanics will make up 35 percent of its population.

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America’s schools are crumbling. Fixing them could save lives (and the planet)

The Hechinger Report

There’s a little bit of a martyr syndrome, that a good teacher should be able to teach in a shoebox. That American school buildings aren’t in good shape shouldn’t be news. And many schools had critical structural problems; 10 percent of districts reported that most of their schools have walls or foundations that need work.

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