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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

From 2017-18 to 2021-22, districts with more economically disadvantaged students and Black and Latino students gave out more such suspensions per capita than their more affluent, whiter counterparts. Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Five of the state’s 124 high schools are on target to hand out the new diplomas next spring, according to a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education, while others have barely started to make the transition. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For many reasons, graduate programs make up a particularly attractive market both for these companies and for universities looking to shore up their bottom lines, said Kevin Carey, vice president for education policy and knowledge management at the think tank New America.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

More students turned to the program in the wake of the devastating 2008 economic crash. Young adults who have to borrow money to go to college are under water, in sharp contrast to their parents’ generation, according to a report by Young Invincibles, an advocacy and policy group.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I In Austin, 53 percent of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged. I can’t do that.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

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. And for the most part, that has not happened.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The campaign to reinstate the exemption was the result of legal action by many elite four-year institutions and advocacy groups, notably Harvard University and MIT. education at diverse and less expensive institutions on their way to the job market, or to a four-year degree. The benefits of enrolled international students go both ways.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2016

In her acceptance speech at the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia Thursday night, Hillary Clinton pledged to create new economic opportunities for all Americans by generating more and better jobs; expanding affordable childcare and preschool programs, and making higher education “debt-free for all.”. Convention coverage.

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