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We need more black and brown teachers but not for the reasons you think

The Hechinger Report

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections. Better teaching should be aimed at the source of schooling problems – future policy makers. Privilege is passed on like inheritance.

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Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child care

The Hechinger Report

The program has never been funded at the level that it needs to be to be able to meet the need, said Rachel Wilensky, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy. Do we pay our providers more and serve fewer [families] or serve more families and pay our providers less? I think of it as a whack-a-mole problem.

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