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Bullied by the badge?

The Hechinger Report

These arrests can have dire consequences, suggests a 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute. While black students represented 16 percent of the nation’s public school population in the 2011-12 school year, they made up 31 percent of students subjected to school-related arrests, according to a 2014 report by the U.S.

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Students are enlisted to help flailing classmates deal with money matters

The Hechinger Report

And a handbook on financial literacy for community college students published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston also highlighted the model. based policy and youth-advocacy organization. percent in 2011, when the financial ambassadors began their work, to 14.9 Many students seem to like it.

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