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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

The Hechinger Report

While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. At Menlo, her days revolved around helping students curate their high school careers and lists of colleges.

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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

ED Surge

Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades. Lawmakers in Ohio in recent years have lifted income caps on those vouchers, along with their requirement that to be eligible, families must live in an area with schools designated as failing.

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70 years later, schools — and moms — are still fighting segregation

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Credit: Stella Kalina for The 19th With 133,560 residents, Pasadena has one of the densest concentrations of private schools in the country , according to school officials. But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

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Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Analysis: hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs

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Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings.

Economics 145
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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

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Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. It hasn’t worked, and it will never work — no matter how many experts and how much money we throw at the problem.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

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Lee Brand, a local pastor and member of the school board, says the town limits are a stark line. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. Before consolidation, Oktibbeha County School district enrolled just 856 students, 96 percent of whom received free and reduced-price lunch, a federal measure of poverty. “So