The Hechinger Report

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. million , is the soon-to-be-abandoned 60-acre campus, which is valued at $19.1

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2020

Most American universities are run by a process of shared governance, or the practice of recognizing faculty, administrators, staff and students as integral stakeholders in a university’s success, and the success of the individual members of that university community. higher education. . higher-education institutions. higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

I was shocked at the conditions of schools in my state. The State of South Carolina, a class-action lawsuit in which districts sued the state for failing to provide minimally adequate education. I was shocked at the conditions of schools in my state.”. The experience was transformational for me.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

When Missouri Western State University declared a financial emergency in the spring, it was widely assumed to have been the fault of the coronavirus pandemic. This story also appeared in NBC News. Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. Cash reserves sank.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Tūtū and Me is one of several family-child interaction learning programsin Hawaii that offers support to the state’s large number of non-parental caregivers who provide child care each day. The state lost 12 percent of its child care spots during the pandemic.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

This continuing innovation is particularly important, because some of the technical and governance challenges facing the Bitcoin blockchain are real doozies. Student mobility within and across states is a big issue. Educator credentialing/certification/re-certification (including across state and national lines). Lots of upside.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

I went and talked to Maggie, which was probably the hardest conversation because she’s teaching full-time, taking classes, mom of two kids, and I had to tell her [the state is] not going to issue your provisional license and we’re going to take an accreditation ding,” Wilson said. Local News Fellowship.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This story was reprinted with permission from The Lens, a nonprofit, in-depth news site serving New Orleans. The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. Photo: Della Hasselle.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While getting a national picture of the problem is hard, lawyers and advocates in eight of the nine states contacted by The Hechinger Report said they were aware of districts that had put special education evaluations on hold. Doing these tests safely is often difficult if not impossible during the pandemic.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 2, 2016

Bad higher education news just keeps coming in the American state of Kentucky. ” Additionally, a debt burden driven in part by “the building of new facilities including residence halls, a health-sciences building, and most recently a state-of-the-art library.” Catharine case.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Everyone in America should be concerned about recent news that the U.S. Think of it this way: The federal government supplies grants and loans on the front end, and on the back end provides loan forgiveness when institutions go under, as it did with ITT Tech and Corinthian Colleges. Over a decade ago, The Economist stated that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Baker is introduced as new Northern Illinois University president on April 2, 2013. Baker resigned after state investigators declared he mismanaged the university. Victim of a years-long state budget impasse, Northern Illinois University has a $35 million funding shortfall. Wire photo: © Scott Strazzante/TNS via ZUMA Wire.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we approach the impending ESSER fiscal cliff, states and school districts across the country will be grappling with the abrupt loss of federal pandemic relief funding. 2024 will be a mix of states and districts spending their remaining funds while also looking to the future.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2017

You can’t function as a school, state or private, thinking there’s an endless supply of money,” said the college’s president, Melik Peter Khoury. Northeastern University, which has an entire Office of New Ventures to develop novel ways of making money, also has a fast-track coding boot camp, which costs $7,995 for two months.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. There are 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Remedial education, which forces some college students to re-take math and English they should have learned in high school, is being eliminated in states including Florida and California. Department of Education inspector general has raised concerns about a lack of oversight of this. a former assistant U.S. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

When the news first broke that two neighboring school districts in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi had to consolidate, parents, teachers, and students on both sides of the district lines buzzed with anxiety. Many students in the district were children of professors and administrators from nearby Mississippi State University.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Forest Hill High School is a picture of strength and prosperity, but it received an “F” rating on its most recent state evaluation, as did almost a third of the schools in the Jackson school district. Related: Schools in the poorest state become even poorer. Photo: Imani Khayyam. JACKSON, Miss. Inside, it’s a different story.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we approach the impending ESSER fiscal cliff, states and school districts across the country will be grappling with the abrupt loss of federal pandemic relief funding. 2024 will be a mix of states and districts spending their remaining funds while also looking to the future.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The School of Information at San José State University is the founding conference sponsor, and this event is being held in collaboration with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries. Please register as a member of the Library 2.0 network to be kept informed of future events. See you online! Steve Hargadon Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

State Department, the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Journalism and National Security and the white paper series inspired by the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities. Hildreth holds a BA from Syracuse University, an MLS from the State University of New York (SUNY) Albany and an MBA from Rutgers University.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 17, 2016

Even here is the USA, the economy is a shadow of what it was in the 1980s – no matter what the news media says. The state makes me teach it to you ”. The US Government needs to acknowledge that teachers are professionals. Again, it all comes back to the government. In many countries across the world, there are no jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2022

In a significant move largely unnoticed outside of academia, the governing councils of the Association of American University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers this month agreed to a formal affiliation that would unite nearly 316,000 academic employees. Some are quitting. Related: Inflation is coming to college campuses.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic is raising the cost of being black in the United States even more. It’s devastating, but not surprising, news that black Americans are suffering at disproporationate levels from the coronavirus. State higher-education policy isn’t helping matters.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Numerous statistics – and students themselves – point to the significant struggles many young people in the United States are experiencing. Pondiscio says, adding that people will disagree on the appropriate use of government dollars for mental health in publicly run schools. School staff need proper training and oversight, he says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

This story also appeared in GBH News. Credit: Meredith Nierman, GBH News. People just see student loans,” said Marissa Munoz, the New York-based regional director of the student advocacy organization Young Invincibles. Estranged from his parents and briefly homeless, he took out $50,000 in federal loans. It’s just plain wrong.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: In 2016-17 alone, Premier schools enrolled more than 10,000 students across nine states along the East Coast who brought with them $65 million in federal funding, according to federal data. Premier said the disclosure forms that all students sign state that the school does not guarantee employment.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

This story about the foster care and education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. And government oversight is lacking.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In a state in which 43 percent of kids of kindergarten age are not ready to begin school, most of those involved in early education don’t deny there’s a problem, and many agree there is a way to fix it. Related: One of the worst states at caring for low-income babies and toddlers. Photo: Della Hasselle.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

The state will terminate its contract with the organization at the end of this year. Mississippi is scrambling to qualify for a guarantee of up to $61 million to help families pay for child care after the federal government said the state must do more to train center workers and ensure it is paying centers adequately.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They are among the 27 million adults age 25 and older of all races in the United States who haven’t graduated from high school or gotten their GED, even as the number of jobs that don’t require these basic credentials are shrinking. Jerica Washington remembers her high school years here with a mix of pride and regret.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

This contributes to falling enrollment in states already struggling with some of the nation’s lowest percentages of residents with college educations. Related: States have cut money for higher education 17 percent since the recession. In many of those states, about a quarter of the population earns that much or less.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The changes in oversight coincide with an ambitious new plan from the State Early Childhood Advisory Council, or SECAC, to raise the quality of care for the state’s poorest children. State officials are hopeful that their newest plans will improve a child care system that is often inadequate. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Such students are seen as a source of much-needed revenue at a time when drops in state funding and declining undergraduate enrollment have squeezed higher education budgets. One is that there’s no limit to how much the federal government will lend to graduate students to pay for school — they can borrow up to the entire cost of a program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

This approach stands out in this city just three years after local and state school officials settled a lawsuit that alleged massive and systemic discrimination against students with disabilities. The state-run Recovery School District governed most of the charter schools in New Orleans at the time.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. That declining enrollment has meant the loss of millions of dollars in state money for the district.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. This story also appeared in NBC News. The problems were not evenly spread among states. State support still lags behind what it was before the Great Recession. Illinois has 26.

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