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MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 125

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. There are gifted dropouts. Yet the internet and reference books teem with professionally endorsed lists of so-called gifted traits. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

These references to fictional characters are not incidental. Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. Department of Education in 1980. That’s not necessarily a compliment.

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Dropout Policies Elementary Data 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

How one district solved its special education dropout problem. While Burns struggled at a Durham, North Carolina, elementary school, she says she began to catch up academically after she transferred to a middle school in nearby Raleigh. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Dropout Report System Meeting 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines.

Guidelines 144

Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 144

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While most schools across the country are fully back in person, students continue to struggle to complete homework assignments or participate in remote learning because they lack adequate internet service and access to a computer at home — a phenomenon commonly referred to as the “homework gap.” Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” All through elementary school, she’d excelled in the classroom, though she spent a lot of time in the principal’s office. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out.

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Dropout Policies Report System 67

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OCTOBER 2, 2016

The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. In the past year, several of his former students from East Oktibbeha who now attend Starkville High have stopped by his classroom to ask for college references. Closing the school meant the district had to reshuffle students into existing elementary schools.

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Report Dropout System Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. Referring to the in-school mental health counselor who is on site each day through a Say Yes partnership, Galenski noted, “I have, over the years, made many referrals for kids to see her on a weekly basis. I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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Data Secondary System Accessibility 104

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Still, districts nationwide are now placing students in online learning in response to misbehavior, in a process referred to in certain circles as “virtualization.” Some school districts consider virtual learning an alternative to discipline — not a form of discipline itself. Louis, in the spring of 2022.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. BURIEN, Wash. —

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Elementary Training Report Guidelines 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

The term refers to the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people, also known as the Sioux. Nationwide, high school graduation rates for Native students are lower than those of their white peers, and their dropout rates are higher. The school is centered on the culture and language of the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

In elementary and middle school, Knight was one of the smartest people I knew. “Educational institutions that have been found in violation of the law and refuse to address the problems identified by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) can lose federal funding or be referred to the U.S. He looks exactly like his mother.

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Guidelines Policies Report Dropout 47

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Doe that public elementary and secondary schools couldn’t consider immigration status when a student seeks to enroll. Join the conversation later on Andre Perry’s radio show, “Free College,” hosted Tuesdays on WBOK1230 in New Orleans at 3pm Central/4pm Eastern 504.260.9265. The 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v.

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Advocacy Secondary System Report 73

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

In 2019, the Trump administration prohibited providers in the program from referring patients for abortion except in rare cases, leading almost 1,000 clinics to leave the program. Although the Biden administration reversed the rule last year, it’s unclear how many clinics have returned.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 141