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Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

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Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. A few months earlier, according to a state report provided by Richmond, AJ had once threatened to knock another student down to steal his belt; his special education team had stepped in and concluded he posed no threat of harm to himself or others. How depressed was he feeling?

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

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Credit: Shae Hammond for The Hechinger Report Hall is now paying off about $190,000 in student loans, the cumulative cost of her undergraduate degree from Linfield College in Oregon, her master’s at the University of Arizona and her doctorate from the University of Oregon. Kate Brown announced the introduction of a statewide grant fund.

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

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Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Guidelines put out by the U.S. The study described a 14-year-old referred to as Percy F. The studies came just as the U.S.

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Twilight of income-share agreements to pay for college?

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It’s a sign of fraught times for these schools and for the training boot camps that offer ISAs, with lawsuits mounting, federal and state governments imposing restrictions and students reporting mixed satisfaction. Some of those closing shop report lack of interest. Purdue’s pause points to bigger problems in the ISA industry.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

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Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. But no one told Petersen that. Beth Petersen watches as her son leaves for the school bus on Oct.

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

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That helped advocates launch what would become a nearly decade-long campaign in Congress to weave better health and safety guidelines into CCDBG. Databases also needed to go online, allowing parents to search providers and see inspection reports and violations in their state. States had until October 2018 to come into compliance.

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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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