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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

Nationally, black students who have the same family income as white students are much less likely to graduate from high school. Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School. The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. It’s like a legal segregation.”.

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The mystery of President-elect Donald J. Trump and his education agenda: ‘There’s not much more’

The Hechinger Report

He has called on states to contribute an additional $110 billion of their own education budgets toward school choice, with the goal of providing approximately $12,000 in school-choice funds to “every K-12 student who today lives in poverty.” As for the state allocation, Trump seems to be relying on the power of persuasion.

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

But the federal civil rights law is often ignored, misunderstood or blatantly violated in public schools. A charter school in Louisiana required students to take a pregnancy test and then forced them out if they refused or tested positive. The social and economic implications for these teenagers when they drop out are profound.