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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

We have classroom tutors now. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. I’m going to keep her at her private school. One of the teachers at his school passed away suddenly over winter break. Our district has realized some of our challenges.

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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

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Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. We had a tutor. Our school districts provided Chromebooks. We didn’t have wireless but used Covid funds to put that in and started advertising that we’re open for tutoring. I just don’t. She’s four.

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Education nominee McMahon says she supports calls to dismantle the agency but that funding wouldn’t be affected

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But McMahon would not say that running affinity groups for students from certain racial or ethnic backgrounds, such as a Black engineers club or an after-school club for Vietnamese American students, was permitted. Thats pretty chilling, Murphy said. McMahon also ran the Small Business Administration in Trumps first administration.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

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Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. His administration made it possible for parents to use their children’s 529 college savings plan to pay for up to $10,000 annually in private school tuition.

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

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During his time as governor, Walz signed legislation last year to make college tuition-free for Native American students in Minnesota and required K-12 teachers to complete training on Native American history.

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