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On day three of the strike, members and supporters of United Teachers Los Angeles picket outside the Local District East office of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Elementary to High School

LA’s school counselors strike back

by E. Tammy Kim January 23, 2019April 8, 2021

Schools need to step up to fight a rise in suicides among black children

by Andre Perry and Michael A. Lindsey December 18, 2018March 30, 2020

Oliver Francis, of Philadelphia, was placed in foster care because he was truant. He graduated from George Junior Republic, a residential school in Grove City, Pennsylvania, this spring.

Elementary to High School

New report underscores education problems in institutions for foster youth

by Caroline Preston December 13, 2018March 30, 2020

For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

by Andre Perry December 4, 2018April 8, 2021

Western Michigan sophomore Kayla Mayes has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. The Seita Scholars Program gives her academic, financial and emotional support.

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From foster care to college

by Delece Smith-Barrow December 1, 2018April 8, 2021

Sasha Redlener, a fourth-grade teacher at Mott Haven Academy Charter School, helps her students with an assignment. Classes at the school mix “body breaks” and other playtime with reading and math instruction and lessons in social and emotional skills.

Elementary to High School

‘A child is not a revolving door’

by Caroline Preston November 24, 2018March 30, 2020

The Hankinses with their son David. A family court judge rejected the New York City Department of Education’s allegation that the couple had neglected their child by keeping him out of school and having “unrealistic expectations” for his education.

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When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents

by Rebecca Klein and Caroline Preston November 17, 2018March 30, 2020

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school.

Elementary to High School

Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

by Amadou Diallo November 16, 2018March 30, 2020

Oliver Francis, of Philadelphia, was placed in foster care because he was truant. He graduated from George Junior Republic, a residential school in Grove City, Pennsylvania, this spring.

Elementary to High School

Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them

by Caroline Preston November 10, 2018March 30, 2020

Greg Cruey, a teacher at Southside K-8 school, greeting students in the morning.

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Teachers are first responders to the opioid crisis

by Rebecca Klein November 3, 2018April 8, 2021