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A "Harrowing" Time for Head Start
Please read and share Anya Kemenetz' reporting on this "harrowing" time of budget cuts and uncertainty for
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Threats to the Health of Low-Income Children
4.9 million children – nearly one in ten – attends a school within a mile of a chemical facility. Children attending
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Regional Colleges as the (Threatened) Lifeblood of Their Communities
As the national press is – again – focused on the administration's actions at a handful of elite colleges, ProPublica
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Raising the Bar for Everything: Prom Edition
Browsing social media this morning, this post popped into my feeds. I'd like to imagine that the algorithms
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Mandating College Admissions That Favor the Rich
On February 14, the U.S. Department of Education issued a "Dear Colleague" letter to schools, colleges, and
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More on the Department of Education Cuts
Updates on cuts to the Department of Education: Yesterday, 21 democratic Attorneys General filed a lawsuit against the cuts, arguing
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In Which the Powerful Decimate the Federal Financial Aid System
Inside Higher Ed has a summary up this morning of how deeply this weeks' cuts at the Department of
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Giving up on Equality: The Destruction of the Department of Education
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men [sic], the
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Pushing Back
I wanted to stand up and cheer when I read this account of a consortium of community college leaders working
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The Changes to Education, So Far
It can be hard to keep up with the firehose of information from the federal government. Thus, this Hechinger Report
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Private College Counselors For Some Students? Fine. But the Low-Income Students Can Have Bots.
Because the application processes for federal financial aid are complicated and the student loan repayment system has been shifting so
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The Department of Education and Diminishing Financial Aid
As I write this, Linda McMahon, nominee for Secretary of Education, is testifying in her Senate confirmation hearing. Ms. McMahon