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Undocumented High School Students Are Now the ‘Post-DACA Generation’

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This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. analysis of augmented 2021 American Community Survey data.

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

Even if that rebounds, the number of potential future college freshmen graduating from high schools nationwide will begin decreasing after 2025 , the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education estimates. Colleges competing for students “know there’s a bad brand out there for the liberal arts.

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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

The Hechinger Report

Some institutions are letting students graduate in three years instead of four; this can save them money and increase capacity on campus but a Johns Hopkins University analysis says these schools are mostly just condensing their four-year timetables, making it hard for any but the most academically prepared students to finish in three years.

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Trust issues

The Hechinger Report

However, due to instances of outdated and inconsistent data from federal, state, and tribal cartographic sources, our analysis may include lands that do not neatly align with some borders and ownership claims. As a result, our analysis may be off by a few hundred acres.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

The 10-year moratorium on even partial reimbursements could create a backlog of more than a billion dollars’ worth of capital projects across state schools by 2025, according to a March analysis of Alaska’s K-12 capital spending by Bob Loeffler, a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research.

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OPINION: During civic learning week, let’s push for national progress toward a more perfect union

The Hechinger Report

This momentum has carried forth into 2025, with bills impacting civic education filed in many states. Shawn Healy is chief of Policy and Advocacy for iCivics.org and directs the CivxNow coalition. Continued progress is necessary. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

Dearman said a recent housing needs analysis determined the BIE now needs 30 beds in Supai, but has only 12. The bill didnt advance, but Heritage resurrected the idea last year in its Project 2025 transition plan for the next president. It also guarantees housing, in theory, but in a pinch has forced teachers to room together.