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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

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. “It looks good from the curb, but when you get inside you see that Black and brown people are worse off economically than in West Virginia — and no one wants to talk about it,” says Frank Brown, who heads Communities in Schools of Atlanta, an organization that runs dropout-prevention programs in Atlanta Public Schools. It was no joke.”

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

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Oregon joined this list, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, when then-Gov. According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees at a public, four-year school was $10,940 for in-state students in 2022-23 or $28,240 for out-of-state students. Kate Brown announced the introduction of a statewide grant fund.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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Louis, in the spring of 2022. After a fight broke out involving two of her children and other classmates in October 2022, Crawford and her lawyers say all five of her kids were placed on virtual learning. A single mom, Crawford left her longtime home of Memphis to get her family away from gun violence near their home.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. I never really wanted to go from school to school.”. Credit: Grace Beahm Alford/Staff.

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Is California saving higher education?

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That kind of activism also stands out from what is happening in most other states, where students lack strong statewide organizations or are less involved in state politics, said Max Lubin, an Education Department official in the Obama administration who started the advocacy group Rise while a graduate student at Berkeley.

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“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. billion in revenue by 2022. ” asks the Pioneer Press. ”).