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Trade programs — unlike other areas of higher education — are in hot demand

The Hechinger Report

Among them is 26-year-old Cheven Jones, taking a break from working on his 2003 Lexus IS 300. percent from spring 2021 to 2022, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. Some others linger around a metal picnic table in the parking lot, sipping cool sugary drinks and poking fun at each other’s projects.

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

The Hechinger Report

Systems like background checks and data tracking are key safety mechanisms in any industry. It’s not the easily accessible, plain language vision that was laid out in CCDBG. “I They found 1,362 fatalities in child care from 1985 through 2003, 75 percent of them in home-based care, both licensed and unlicensed.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Selma Casagranda, 18, and Annika Nilsson, 17, ride the Nilsson family ATV along Lost Creek — the stream that floods Nilsson’s neighborhood in Seward, Alaska, each fall — and point to where a house once stood before flood waters made the property useless. In 2014, the U.S. Credit: Young Kim for The Hechinger Report.

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