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JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. Related: “Education costs money,” says state superintendent in Mississippi. Census data.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

They’re not the first to do this; Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University, for example, spun off a campus in Silicon Valley in 2002. Las Vegas, by comparison, “is for all practical purposes an education desert. Not just an actual desert, but an education desert,” Walsh said. The islands are only so big.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Some solutions in education are expensive. Higher Education. But the concept got a big push in 2002 when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put its financial muscle behind the idea as a way to motivate more low-income youth, especially blacks and Latinos, to go to college and give them a head start on their degrees. (

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

“Five and six year old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators,” Johnson told his audience as he explained that the federal government would be, for the first time, funding education and health services for children living in poverty in the form of a public preschool program. But the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to the state Department of Education, hundreds of thousands of parents like Gobert are thought to be financially at-risk and should warrant help from the Child Care Assistance Program, the only state-administered initiative in Louisiana that assists low-income families to pay for care and education for children under the age of 4.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Our culture has been ‘heads down, do the work, support, educate, graduate kids,’ ” said Tony Allen, the president of Delaware State. In 2002, the state of Mississippi reached a settlement in a lawsuit about the underfunding of its historically Black colleges. The pandemic intensified that mission. Credit: Christina A.

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