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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

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We worked with the legislature to amend the law to include more entry points into teacher education programs by adding a provision that takes into account prospective teachers’ GPAs, instead of relying solely on ACT and Praxis scores. Phelton Moss is the acting director of American University’s Education Policy and Leadership Program.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

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“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. That concerns Joshua Cowen, a professor of education policy at Michigan State University.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

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In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. A tutor began coming to his home for a few hours a week, but Martinez says he learned very little. Depending on the district, suspended students can be taught through remote instruction or in person at an alternative school, a tutoring center or their home.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. At some types of institutions, they’re flat or getting worse, according to the data.

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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

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Remedial education, which forces some college students to re-take math and English they should have learned in high school, is being eliminated in states including Florida and California. That’s depriving them of a big chunk of their educations, said Peter Huidekoper Jr., Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Students drown in debt despite a $524 million state surplus

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It’s unclear to me just if there’s any strategy around that unrestricted reserve,” said Jennifer Lee, a higher education policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. “In It’s money that the state told people… we’re going to spend on education.”. That’s obviously a huge component to the student loan debt.”.

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Parents are panicking, giving up their careers and spending thousands of dollars on piecemeal solutions for the school year

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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 But now, when kids are at home, privileged parents are going to be able to hire tutors and teachers. I can’t do that.

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