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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. 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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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

Elliott’s lawyer told him that he could expect to spend the next two months in jail — and out of the classroom — while the district attorney decided whether to accept his case. True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library.

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