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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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San Diego Unified School District raises Juneteenth flag in second annual ceremony |
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For the second year in a row, San Diego Unified School District raised the Juneteenth flag on Friday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War. Juneteenth is a national holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and announced to enslaved African-Americans that they were freed. |
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EDSOURCE
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Curbing poverty may lower rates of child abuse, study suggests |
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A new study from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) details the impact of tax credits on child wellbeing, as Hechinger reports, even as policymakers debate whether to expand them. The study found a significant decrease in reported child mistreatment cases in the weeks after families received federal child and earned income tax credits. During the pandemic, tax credits helped boost millions of families out of poverty. |
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https://edsource.org/updates/curbing-poverty-may-lower-rates-of-child-abuse-study-suggests |
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Childcare costs pinch family budget, report shows |
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Rising childcare costs continue to strain families. A new report from Care.com found that rates for everything from nannies to afterschool care have increased significantly since the start of the pandemic, as Fatherly reported. Care.com’s ninth annual Cost of Care report digs into the hardships families endure so that their children have care during working hours, and the sacrifices parents make to afford that care. Care.com found that 72% of families spend at least 10% of their income on child care, exceeding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) affordability threshold of 7%, and 51% of parents say they expect to pay at least 20% of the family income for care. |
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https://edsource.org/updates/childcare-costs-pinch-family-budget-report-shows |
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KPBS
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Black educators were casualty of school integration, new book argues |
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The landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 ended “separate but equal” school discrimination and began the integration of American schools. But a new book tells the story of a little-known consequence of the ruling: Black educators losing their jobs. "There were about 100,000 black principals and teachers who lost their jobs, who were summarily fired, dismissed and demoted. And the blame for their fiery dismissal and demotion was placed on the Brown decision. But in fact, it was white resistance to the Brown decision and not the decision, which was miraculous in a watershed moment for America," said Leslie T. Fenwick, author of the book Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership. |
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/06/20/black-educators-were-casualty-of-school-integration-new-book-argues |
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NPR
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Supreme Court rules Maine's tuition assistance program must cover religious schools |
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The U.S. Supreme Court handed school choice advocates a major victory on Tuesday.
By a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, the court opened the door further for those seeking taxpayer funding for religious schools. In its clearest statement to date, the court said that if a state uses taxpayer money to pay for students attending nonreligious private schools, it must also use taxpayer funds to pay for attendance at religious schools. For all practical purposes, the decision thus invalidates provisions in 37 state constitutions that ban the direct or indirect use of taxpayer money in religious schools.
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https://www.npr.org/2022/06/21/1105348236/supreme-court-rules-maines-tuition-assistance-program-must-cover-religious-schoo |
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