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Mark Thiessen / AP Alaska Still Hasn’t Saved Its Universities
The governor agreed to halve his proposed budget cuts. But the school system still stands to lose $70 million.
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Karl Tapales / Getty The Whiter, Richer School District Right Next Door
Public schools’ dependence on local property taxes means some districts get isolated from the financial resources in their communities.
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Scott Olson / Getty Bennet Steals the Moment From Harris and Biden on School Segregation
But it will take more than just talk to fix America’s schools.
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David Mercer / AP An Underhanded, If Legal, Scheme to Get Financial Aid
When families try to game higher education, the neediest students suffer the most.
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Tom Merton / Getty Many College Students Are Too Poor to Eat
But no one can agree on just how many. Now lawmakers are introducing a bill to change that.
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Elizabeth Frantz / Leah Millis / Reuters / … The 10 Presidential Candidates Who Support Busing
Many 2020 Democrats agree that school segregation is a significant problem, but not all of them want the federal government to step in.
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Becky Bohrer / AP Higher Education Has Become a Partisan Issue
And university budgets are suffering as a result.
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Tom Fowlks / Getty Are Small Private Colleges Worth the Money?
Paying for college is becoming more difficult. So is justifying the full-freight cost of some private institutions.
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John Vachon / Library of Congress The Education Deserts of Rural America
The college-completion gap between rural and urban residents is widening.
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Saul Loeb / Getty / The Atlantic The Confrontation That Laid Bare the Democratic Party’s Evolution
And the country’s
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What Sets Bernie Sanders’s Student-Debt Plan Apart
The senator, alongside Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, announced legislation to cancel all student-loan debt and make college debt-free.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Everyone Wants to Talk About Reparations. But for How Long?
The issue makes the occasional blip in the national conversation. Yet in communities that have been fighting inequality for generations, it is more like the steady thumping of a drum.
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Seth Wenig / AP Jesse Jackson on Reparations: ‘We Are Due a Different Kind of Recognition’
Thirty years ago, the reverend made reparations for slavery core to his presidential campaigns. Now he’s watching as the House grapples with a proposal to study their feasibility.
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Michael Conroy / AP Harvard’s Drastic Decision
The college has rescinded an admissions offer to Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland survivor and conservative activist.
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Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty Parents Gone Wild: High Drama Inside D.C.’s Most Elite Private School
At Sidwell Friends, the high school of Chelsea Clinton and the Obama children, college counselors find themselves besieged by Ivy-obsessed families.
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Kelly Bell / Diego G Diaz / Shutterstock … How the Democrats Got Radicalized on Student Debt
In just over a decade, Democratic Party leaders have gone from advocating modest increases in Pell grants to pushing for large-scale debt cancellation.
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Clarence Fisher / Ayantee 1970 Yearbook / Ayantee … The Day the National Guard Raided a Dorm in North Carolina
Violence in the spring of 1969 marred the commencement festivities for that year’s North Carolina A&T graduates. This year, they finally got to celebrate.
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Dmitry Rukhlenko / hdesignflux / Shutterstock / Arsh … Burger King’s Dystopian Student-Debt Sweepstakes
The restaurant’s contest to pay off student loans is the latest offer to treat the idea of debt relief as a sweepstakes that only a lucky few can win.
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Yulia-Images / Getty The Education Scandal That's Bigger Than Varsity Blues
Rich kids are enrolled in college at three times the rate of poor kids.
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Cliff Owen / AP Elizabeth Warren Takes a Different Strategy to Court the Black Vote
The Massachusetts senator is betting big on higher-education funding.
