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

The Hechinger Report

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. 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. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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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. A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. OAKLAND, Calif. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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

The Hechinger Report

She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. She teaches dance to elementary school kids now. After that, Kailani stopped attending math.

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

The Hechinger Report

Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. The atrium at Mary Harris Mother Jones Elementary school in Prince George’s County, Maryland, is lined with flags from different countries, including those in Central America. And she is happy.

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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.”.

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Via The New York Times : “ New York to Shorten Standardized Tests in Elementary and Middle Schools.” ” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. ” Via Campus Technology : “ IoT to Represent More Than Half of Connected Device Landscape by 2021.”