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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

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Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Native advocates said some students don’t have this kind of documentation even when they are enrolled in a recognized tribe. Her credit score took a hit.

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As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back

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Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4

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Held back, but not helped

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Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

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Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. She became Carver’s first student to move from undocumented to documented status and to enroll in college.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. He graduated in 2013.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

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Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Opened in 2014 when two existing vocational programs consolidated, Essex Tech is preparing to graduate its first senior class to have spent the entirety of their high school careers at the new campus.

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Chronically absent: Is quality education possible in juvenile detention in Mississippi?

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The report also found that two-thirds to three-fourths of 9th graders who did return to school after incarceration withdraw within a year. A 2016 BOTEC study on crime in the city of Jackson and JPS, however, reported that underfunding means schools have difficulty implementing PBIS with district-wide fidelity.