A new federal regulation will make it more difficult for colleges to withhold students’ transcripts as a way of forcing them to repay loan debts, Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner reported for The Hechinger Report in December 2023. Transcript withholding is a strategy colleges use to recover outstanding debt, even…
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According to a July 2023 report in the Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA), state legislators have proposed to add $60 million to the state’s annual budget to fund rural school districts. Those districts include Franklin County, where declining enrollments and limited real estate tax revenues have resulted in inadequate funding…
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In an article for Rethinking Schools, New York teacher Juan P. Córdova shares his experience teaching a “traditional bilingual classroom” of fourth- and fifth-grade students whose families were seeking asylum in the United States. For example, Córdova renamed home visits “family connections,” acknowledging that while not all of his students…
In an article for The Imprint News, Jeremy Loudenback and Sara Tiano dive into the details of California’s June 30, 2023, signed budget, which incorporates investments in higher education for incarcerated youth and reinforces oversight of educational institutions within youth detention facilities. The budget administers $80 million for alternative schools,…
In September 2023, private K-12 schools in Arizona decided to raise their tuition between 6 and 20 percent in response to experimental vouchers given to families to make private education more accessible, according to an article by Neal Morton for the Hechinger Report. In July 2023, Arizona became the first…
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In August 2023, the Hechinger Report’s Rebecca Redelmeier reported findings from the University of North Carolina’s Neurosciences Hospital on how in-hospital schools open a road to recovery to address the student mental health crisis and foster school connectedness. Programs like UNC’s Hospital School have been linked to helping students recover…
In a September 2023 article for ProPublica, produced in partnership with the Idaho Statesman, Becca Savransky reported that Salmon, Idaho’s elementary and middle schools are at serious risk of falling apart and pose physical threats to students. Despite several attempts to solve the issue, both state and local legislation have…
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A Fall 2023 report, “Teaching While Undocumented,” by authors Esa Syeed and Abigail Rosas for Rethinking Schools describes the personal experiences and struggles of undocumented individuals newly working as teachers in the state of California. One teacher, Daniela, describes what it was like to attend school as an undocumented, non-English-speaking…
An investigation by Alan MacLeod, senior staff writer at MintPress News, shows how the US military is using young women to lure Gen Z recruits into service through sexually suggestive content on social media. One of the main influencers highlighted is Hailey Lujan, who posts videos in “true Gen-Z style”…
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On July 3-4, 2023, Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) launched an attack on the Jenin refugee camp in Israeli occupied Palestine. The IOF did not attack on their own, they were aided by United States’ weapons and support, according to a report by Marjorie Cohn for Truthout. Cohn described the attack…
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