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When High School–and Childhood–Is Cut Short in America
With a child poverty rate of 35%, 1 in 3 kids are growing up impoverished ... barrier that COVID-19 would present to students across America. Nearly 94% of America’s schools were forced to close their ...
Think you can survive at the poverty level? These students saw what it was like
Over 100 middle and high school students from across New Jersey came to Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison on Tuesday ...
Business Insider1y
Why America hates its children
and US newborns are more likely to grow up in poverty. Millions of children attend public schools that are literally falling apart. Children who are neglected — a loose term inextricably tied to ...
KUNM5d
Albuquerque Public Schools raises school poverty threshold for funding allocation
Albuquerque Public Schools is changing how it allocates federal funds designed to help ensure an equitable education for ...
The Citizen11d
Poverty, child labour and violence push boys out of school, says Unesco
This is particularly acute in North America ... violence and bullying at school, which disproportionately affects them. “A primary driver is poverty and the need to work. Girls also drop ...
‘Get that funding where it needs to go’: Florida Education Commissioner Weighs in on DOE dismantling
In an exclusive interview, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. told Action News Jax he expects the loss of the department to likely be a net positive for state and local-level education ...
Tony DiBenedetto's mission to break the poverty cycle through career mentorship nonprofit
Officially launching in 2019, the nonprofit is designed to unlock underprivileged students' potential through career ...