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Do income-based repayment plans drive young borrowers of color deeper into debt?

The Hechinger Report

One-third of Black borrowers in repayment in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree were using these payment plans – a much higher rate than those of other borrowers, according to a report from the Center for American Progress. percent in 2017 , it’s down from 14.7 Related: More students are taking out private loans as college costs rise.

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Close the Achievement Gap: 5 Specific Strategies

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In Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices (2003), Belinda Williams identified four needs of students. In many middle and high schools, an advisory or advocacy program is often included. Barbara Blackburn was named one of the Top 30 Global Gurus in Education in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

The Hechinger Report

Curt Coy, who was the VA’s deputy under secretary for economic opportunity from 2011 until his retirement in late 2017, said it was hard to find resources for veterans’ educational issues. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the number of veterans using the benefit has doubled, to nearly 900,000 last year.

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

The Wiley Kaikou Muir Act passed in 2017. They found 1,362 fatalities in child care from 1985 through 2003, 75 percent of them in home-based care, both licensed and unlicensed. In early 2017, the state put in an automated reporting system that allowed day care owners to report serious incidents quickly online.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

It’s the first week of school at Milwaukee Collegiate Academy, a charter high school Fuller founded in 2003 that’s housed in a low-slung concrete warehouse just a five-minute drive from the North Division campus. In 2017 the school received more than $462,000 in contributions, according to IRS filings. Black schools for black children.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice. Since the MAEP went into full effect, the state education budget met the minimum required in only two years, 2003 and 2007. In 2003, when Robert Clark retired, his son Bryant Clark ran for his father’s old seat.

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Public colleges shock students by sending them to costly debt collection agencies

The Hechinger Report

Brendan Mullican, a former student at Sam Houston State, served in the Navy for four years, including in the Middle East during the 2003 Iraq War. He got a bill from the agency in 2017 informing him he owed $12,689. These students cannot reenroll until their debts are fully paid.

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