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Fresh Food, Dance Class, and Nap Mats: What's Lost Without Federal Money for Child Care

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By serving these families, Gale got access to federal child care subsidies. More than 40 percent of children in West Virginia under age 6 who need child care can’t access it, she explains, pointing to data from Child Care Aware and TEAM for West Virginia Children. For an afternoon snack, children had sliced apples with peanut butter.

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

The Hechinger Report

Oregon joined this list, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, when then-Gov. One university official said on background that, generally speaking, program staff at any university have to follow federal and state guidelines, as well as standards for who qualifies for the resources.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

Guidelines put out by the U.S. In the fall of 2022, his senior year, the teenager finally got a dyslexia diagnosis, but by then it was far too late to give him the help he had long craved. The studies came just as the U.S.

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Twilight of income-share agreements to pay for college?

The Hechinger Report

Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, has put its program on pause while it seeks more clarity on the changing federal guidelines, Katherine Frohoff, a university spokesperson, said by email. In February 2022 she landed a position as a data analyst at a Houston company and now makes about $64,000.

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

That helped advocates launch what would become a nearly decade-long campaign in Congress to weave better health and safety guidelines into CCDBG. Georgia , for example, had zero serious injuries in 2022; Ohio , which also counts serious “incidents,” had nearly 19,000. Here’s where we stand, 10 years later.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

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A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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