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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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To Get To College, It Helps Black Students To Have A Black Teacher Early On

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A recent study — part of a series of working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research — shows that having just one black teacher not only lowers black students’ high school dropout rates and increases their desire to go to college, but also can make them more likely to enroll in college. ” Copyright 2019 NPR.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. Overall, public school enrollment fell by 710,000 students between the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 school years in the 21 states plus Washington, D.C., She teaches dance to elementary school kids now. After that, Kailani stopped attending math.

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. The girls know that no matter what, we’ll get them through,” said Hall, who, unlike her students, is white and does not speak Spanish.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

Still, between October 2018 and September 2019 more than 75,000 unaccompanied minors — children who arrived in the U.S. In 2019, it ranked fourth of all counties in the U.S. Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. I signed the paper.”.