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

The Hechinger Report

For students of color to matriculate successfully through college to return and teach means that schooling truly added value to a system that apparently rejects black and brown talent. Black teachers may have a larger policy impact when they teach white students.”. Black students certainly need to have role models of smartness.

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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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