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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. population and more than 13 percent of New York City’s population, per the 2010 census. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6 percent of the U.S.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. But they have much better tools than they did in 2005 when the retention policy was put into place,” he said.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. pointed to some of the same culprits: a $20 million annual loss in athletics and rising numbers of well-paid administrators, from 800 to more than 1,190 since 2010. In remarks he had planned to deliver in person to the Board of Trustees on March 19 (emailed instead), Vedder said O.U.

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

The Hechinger Report

His mother, Tyra Hales, signed him up for a youth team at a park near their home in Gentilly, a predominantly black neighborhood that was inundated by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters for weeks in 2005. KIPP Renaissance moved into the building in 2010, adding a new grade each year until it fully ousted Douglass in 2014.

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