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Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) Partners with Scholastic to Create Latino-inspired Book Collection

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This collection will ensure equitable access to resources that will allow all of our students, staff, and families to celebrate themselves and others through the Latino stories and voices captured within these text sets and instructional materials.” By the year 2026, Latino children will make up 30 percent of the school-age population.

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What America can learn from Canada’s new ‘$10 a Day’ child care system

The Hechinger Report

The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. Others suggest that universal access to child care is a communist policy, or that mothers should always stay home with their children.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 4

The Hechinger Report

Kirk: You’re talking about 2026, when we’ll see the number of 18-year-olds drop precipitously because no one was having babies in 2008, during the Great Recession. An independent guide from the advocacy organization Third Way about how to use the federal government’s financial responsibility scores. Michael Horn: Exactly.

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For Families Needing the Most Help, Child Care Costs Are About to Drop

Edsurge

Subsidies are supposed to make care more accessible for those with the most need, but families in many states still struggle to pay child care bills. All will need to be in compliance by 2026. Many of those parents had government assistance for school tuition, but half the time, Farias couldn’t count on them to make their co-payments.

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Short on financial knowledge, some school districts get bad deals on bonds

The Hechinger Report

The building is not completely ADA accessible. Also, the debt was structured so that the district was making interest-only payments until 2026, increasing the overall cost of the loan. Conflicts of interest? A student is assisted down a staircase at Fox Middle School in Arnold, Missouri. Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report.

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Universities and colleges that need to fill seats start offering a helping hand to student-parents

The Hechinger Report

I’ll get back to you,’ ” said Marjorie Sims, managing director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute, one of a growing number of research, policy and advocacy organizations focusing on student-parents. And there are longer-range conversations about putting a child care center in a new 11-story campus building scheduled to open in 2026.

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