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

The Hechinger Report

Using data from three California Community College districts and student demographic information, researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses. It also doesn’t regulate how colleges handle unpaid fees.

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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

The Hechinger Report

The challenge policymakers now confront: how to find them and get them back. The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. One of the advertisements produced by the “You Can.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We

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

The Hechinger Report

Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

The Hechinger Report

But that decades-long ban will end this summer, thanks to legislation passed in 2020. The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. He joined their gang when he was 10, already knowing everyone’s name and how to throw up signs.

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

The Hechinger Report

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — On a chilly morning just before Valentine’s Day 2020, Viviana Longoria, 16, joined the stream of girls getting off the bus at Lincoln Park School, infant bucket seats in tow. At a regular school, there’s so much drama,” Viviana said back in February 2020.

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

The Hechinger Report

She was 8 in January 2020, when earthquakes rocked the island, closing her school for three months while engineers inspected its physical structures to make sure they were safe for students to return. A book in an elementary school library — El Apagón means The Blackout. Some nonprofits have stepped in to fill the gap.