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MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

State trust lands, on and off Indian reservations, make up millions of acres across the Western United States and generate revenue for public schools, universities, jails, hospitals and other public institutions by leasing them for oil and gas extraction, grazing, rights of way, timber, and more. Sign up for our newsletter here.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

But there is no college here and no public school. Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. Many residents, Black and white, aren’t troubled by Issaquena’s lack of public schools because the population is so small.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms.

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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Reopening in School Buildings Hurricane Helene destroyed Burke County’s two largest child care centers, displacing about 250 children from their learning environments and impeding parents from working.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Vancouver Public Schools identified 743 students as homeless this year. Public schools identified 1.1 million kids as homeless in 2020-21, the most recent school year for which data was available. But roughly 85 percent of these children didn’t qualify for public housing assistance.

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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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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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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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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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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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APRIL 26, 2022

Unlike the other subs — many of them parent volunteers or people looking for a little extra work — he’s a full-time, salaried employee with health benefits and a long-term contract with Everett Public Schools , north of Seattle. Nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled in the school district last fall.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. In 36 states and Washington, D.C.,

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MAY 3, 2024

About 20 percent of Texas public school students are English learners, according to federal data, although not all of them are yet old enough to sit for the standardized test. More than half of students are Latino, according to state data , and 62 percent are considered economically disadvantaged. “As

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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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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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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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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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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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JULY 13, 2023

Failure to do so would have dire consequences, causing widespread economic impact and exacerbating the existing strain on the child care system. With the expiration date of these grants approaching this fall, there is an urgent need for Congress to take action and reauthorize them.

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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 11, 2023

Related: PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says For people who’ve long studied chronic absenteeism, the post-COVID era feels different. Our families aren’t valuing education because it isn’t something that’s ever valued us,” Powell said.

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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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JUNE 30, 2020

But not everyone has reaped the benefits of Nashville’s economic growth equally, particularly among the approximately 55,000 adults without high school degrees. Metro Nashville Public Schools English Language Office. Strategies for education providers, government agencies, employers, funders, and other stakeholders.

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. Columbus School, Carteret, N.J

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