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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

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Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. And yet, the Justice Department has not asked the district to report on the performance of the minority students desegregation is supposed to help.

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Federal relief money boosted community colleges, but now it’s going away

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report. “It Almost a third of students at New Jersey’s Union County College work full time and nearly another third part time, according to a 2020 student survey.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. Anyway, Techcrunch reports that “WeWork takes meat off the menu as part of environmental policy drive.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Robots in the classroom ?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “The White House on Monday announced that it would nominate Mitchell “Mick” Zais as deputy secretary of education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. 2 Post at Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Washington Post : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos asked whether leakers could be prosecuted , internal report shows.” ” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” More from Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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DeVos reported a new investment of between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Michigan-based Neurocore , according to a financial disclosure form that was certified by government ethics officials on Wednesday.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Vox : “Brazilian media report that police are entering university classrooms to interrogate professors.” ” Then, “A Day Later, Football Coach Out at Maryland,” Inside Higher Ed reported. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.