Is Head Start in danger?

Posted 2025-04-03 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson launched “Project Head Start,” a summer program intended to help children from low-income families prepare for school. Sixty years later, Head Start has expanded into a multi-billion program operating in all 50 states, serving preschoolers as well as infants, toddlers and pregnant women. But the program is facing serious challenges, […] The post Is Head Start in danger? appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Head Start is in turmoil

Posted 2025-04-03 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson launched “Project Head Start,” a summer program intended to help children from low-income families prepare for school. Sixty years later, Head Start has expanded into a multi-billion program operating in all 50 states, serving preschoolers as well as infants, toddlers and pregnant women. But the program is facing serious challenges, […] The post Head Start is in turmoil appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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As EPA pulls back, advocates warn it’s schoolchildren who face the steepest risks

Posted 2025-04-02 08:00:00 by: Melinda King

This story was produced by Floodlight and republished with permission.  President Donald Trump and his administration have called it the “Great American Comeback.” But environmental advocates say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s reversing course on enforcing air and water pollution laws is more of a throwback — one that will exacerbate health risks for children […] The post As EPA pulls back, advocates warn it’s schoolchildren who face the steepest risks appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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En Puerto Rico, la campaña de Trump para desmantelar el Departamento de Educación pega más fuerte

Posted 2025-04-02 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

Read this story in English. Maraida Caraballo Martínez es educadora en Puerto Rico desde hace 28 años y directora de la Escuela de la Comunidad Jaime C. Rodríguez desde hace siete. Nunca sabe cuánto dinero recibirá del gobierno cada año porque no se basa en el número de niños matriculados. Un año recibió 36.000 dólares; […] The post En Puerto Rico, la campaña de Trump para desmantelar el Departamento de Educación pega más fuerte appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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OPINION: With higher education under siege, college presidents cannot afford to stay silent 

Posted 2025-04-01 08:00:00 by: Melinda King

Higher education is under siege from the Trump administration. Those opposing this siege and the administration’s attacks on democracy would do well to heed the wise advice of Benjamin Franklin given just prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776: “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang […] The post OPINION: With higher education under siege, college presidents cannot afford to stay silent  appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61 

Posted 2025-04-01 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Bright morning sun is streaming through her home’s windows as Sandra Dill reads a picture book about penguins to a room full of busy toddlers. While listening, the kids blow kisses, plop in a visitor’s lap, then get up to slide down a small slide. Dill has been running a family […] The post Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61  appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know

Posted 2025-03-31 19:03:41 by: Melinda King

President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and teachers say mass federal layoffs mean that too few people are left to carry out a complicated law intended to protect some of […] The post Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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OPINION: Stop labeling kids and start revealing their strengths

Posted 2025-03-31 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

“Disengaged,” “unmotivated,” “fragile,” “behind.” These are just a few of the negative labels applied to young people today. We read stories about how they’re suffering from pandemic learning loss and an adolescent mental health crisis. “Kids are addicted to their phones” is a common complaint. It all adds up to an even less helpful label: […] The post OPINION: Stop labeling kids and start revealing their strengths appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Losing homeschool data

Posted 2025-03-28 10:00:00 by: Melinda King

The Trump administration says one of its primary goals in education is to expand school choice and put power back in the hands of parents. Yet it has killed the main way to track one of the most rapidly growing options – learning at home.  The Education Department began counting the number of homeschooled children […] The post Losing homeschool data appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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In Puerto Rico, Trump’s campaign to dismantle the Department of Education has a particular bite

Posted 2025-03-28 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

Maraida Caraballo Martinez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the principal of the elementary school Escuela de la Communidad Jaime C. Rodriguez for the past seven. She never knows how much money her school in Yabucoa will receive from the government each year because it isn’t based on the number […] The post In Puerto Rico, Trump’s campaign to dismantle the Department of Education has a particular bite appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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