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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. Both parents figured Caleb would return to his neighborhood elementary school before too long. “We

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

Fewer than 2 percent of mothers under 18 complete college by age 30 , according to a 2006 report published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (now Power to Decide). Schools already fail this population of students. And recently, the U.S.

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