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

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

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

The Hechinger Report

She began her college education in her early 20s, balancing it with raising two sons and working retail jobs. Keischa Taylor, who began her college education in her 20s, balanced it with raising two sons and working retail jobs. You’ve got this. You didn’t come this far to stop. It’s a rare success story. More than a third of the 40.4

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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

That’s according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, which tracks these things. 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. It’s not going to be less.

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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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