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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 23, 2019
That’s in part because the net price, or the amount students actually pay after discounts and financial aid, has increased nearly twice as fast for graduate as for undergraduate programs in the 10 years ending in 2016. Graduate school is way more expensive than undergrad,” Rivero said. Tuition and fees at the law school at St.
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EdNews Daily
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
In Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices (2003), Belinda Williams identified four needs of students. 1. Access to challenging curriculum and instruction. In many middle and high schools, an advisory or advocacy program is often included. Needs of Students. 3. High expectations.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 24, 2024
An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. CIPA, a federal law passed in 2000, requires schools seeking subsidized internet access to keep students from seeing obscene or harmful images online—especially porn.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 11, 2019
An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost. “I A series of changes in 2011 and 2016 meant to clarify oversight roles has only muddled things, according to the VES report.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Beginning in 2016, King, an entomologist, sat on a Hawaii child care working group in the legislature and advocated for about a dozen regulation bills. Cynthia King reads to her son Dexter Muir at their home in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2016. It’s not the easily accessible, plain language vision that was laid out in CCDBG. “I
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 27, 2021
In October 2003, one year after a flood that forced people to evacuate their homes, residents voted to tax themselves — an action locals here do not take lightly — and create the Seward-Bear Creek Flood Service Area. The compromise does provide for electrifying school buses, lead pipe removal and expanded broadband access.
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