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APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1 Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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APRIL 1, 2021

America’s public schools have enormous energy, infrastructure and transportation needs, which make them an essential component of any plan to improve the nation’s overall infrastructure. Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

ATLANTA – It’s unclear to Tameka how — or even when — her children became unenrolled from Atlanta Public Schools. This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person.

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JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research. One upshot is that policymakers cannot see where public school graduates work or how much they earn.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

The Federal government prompted this tough choice when they told program directors that they may redirect funds typically used to serve children toward pay raises for teachers. And just 8 percent of children under age 3 in poverty are enrolled in Early Head Start. That’s why we need to invest in the children.

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APRIL 14, 2021

But overcoming the pandemic-driven economic crisis will require much more than good intentions and billions in new spending. An economic recession is now making this worse. In Montana, the state government has played a leading role in bringing together talent supply and demand, a model rare in the United States. They had to.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Economic disparities across education systems mean some students have access to laptops, to regular internet access, to printers. Public school students who are poor depend on schools for regular meals, for health/counseling services, for safe spaces. Related: Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In the latest study , published in January 2023, children who went to preschool were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school. The adjusted results for Head Start did not produce statistically clear answers.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. The school also prioritizes economic equity. Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school?

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JULY 29, 2018

2 or later, their child would be the oldest in his class when starting public school (a very good thing from their perspective). At the same time, while paying much less than more affluent families in absolute terms, families at the lower end of the economic spectrum are paying far too much in relation to their income.

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APRIL 17, 2019

The United States cannot maintain its status as an economic powerhouse if we fail to focus properly on basic skills. Johnson formed Head Start in 1964, the federal government has been involved in shaping early childhood education. Public school teachers should observe a high-fidelity Montessori classroom.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Jackson Public Schools entered into an agreement with a private foundation, the City of Jackson, and the Governor’s office to improve its schools. The future of Jackson Public Schools is now in the hands of a coalition that includes representatives from Gov. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Imagine that you are a policymaker who is generally anti-government, anti-union, and pro-privatization. Public schools conflict with all of those, don’t they? Citizens and communities generally like and strongly support their schools. So you’ve got a challenge.

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JUNE 11, 2019

million going toward the construction, they should demand that the New Orleans residents who need jobs and education the most benefit from the 10,000 potential private and government jobs developers and politicians are working to create in Federal City. billion went toward the rebuilding of New Orleans schools specifically.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

African American students are just as likely to attend segregated schools today as they were in 1966, the year the seminal study known as the Coleman Report led to the desegregation of public schools. Recently, the Baltimore City Public School system received a $2.3 While the $2.3

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JANUARY 21, 2019

According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. In a December 2018 draft paper , “Does school spending matter? Georgetown’s Roza points out that many schools haven’t able to increase teacher salaries very much.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. Research also shows immersion programs in general have many educational and cognitive benefits , as well as cultural, economic and social benefits both locally and globally.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. They are too poor — their parents want them to work,’’ Ballani said, while showing a visitor in and out of dusty classrooms at his school, GSSS Damodora, where students dressed in powder-blue uniforms sat on the floor awaiting instruction.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

You know, those things schools should have in their supply cabinets. Unfortunately, school cupboards across the country are bare — or at least underfunded. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Get out of the line to buy school supplies and get in line to demand the state fully fund public schools.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Your heart breaks that you can’t do more, but there are certain economic realities. But Murphy said that those figures do not account for money that goes to low-income students who qualify for the Kalamazoo Promise program, under which resident graduates of local public schools get all or part of their tuition paid for.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. But the older law left retention decisions up to districts.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The analysis offers a comprehensive look at data that states will be required to report to the federal government at the end of this year under the Carl D. Related: What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school? In some school districts, disparities in CTE enrollment come down to the classes high schools offer.

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APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — Six years ago, author and creative writing teacher Anne Gisleson was looking for a school for her 4-year-old son, Otto, who attended a private Lutheran preschool in her Bywater neighborhood. But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

This birth records study, “ School segregation and racial gaps in special education identification ,” was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in May 2019. million public school students in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

These aren’t undergraduate economics majors. It was scientists from Virginia Tech — not the state or federal governments — who discovered high levels of lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, for instance. Many institutions provide legal and medical clinics and intervene to improve their local public schools.

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JULY 30, 2019

Bob Casey (D-PA) tweeted , “No child should have to imagine the horror of being ripped away from their parents because their family is struggling economically.” More than 40 percent of students of color go to high-poverty schools, compared to only 8.5 The federal government subsidizes breakfast for close to 12.5

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JULY 17, 2017

As an in-school family support specialist, Stubbe serves as a liaison between students, families and a number of health, legal and academic support services provided by local community organizations. The Say Yes promise of universal free college tuition to all Buffalo public school graduates has grabbed public attention.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

A final section of the forecast points to existing schools and educational programs that offer glimpses of the future. The I Promise School , for example, a joint initiative of the LeBron James Family Foundation and the Akron Public Schools, offers wraparound services with whole-child development in mind.

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APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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MAY 18, 2016

In spite of a gradual economic recovery and improving revenues, most states are spending dramatically less on public higher education, a new report says. The Topic: Reduced spending by state governments on higher education.

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MAY 10, 2017

For example, while nearly two-thirds of a sample of high school seniors in urban Boston public schools said they intended to enroll in a two- or four-year college the next year, less than a quarter actually did so.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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