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Angela Pike watches her fourth grade students at Lakewood Elementary School in Cecilia, Ky., as they use their laptops to participate in an emotional check-in at the start of the school day, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

For the first time in 20 years, teachers can deduct more for school supplies

9:35am August 17, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Eligible educators include K-12 teachers, principals, teachers' aides or counselors who spend more than 900 hours at the school during the academic year.

News brief: Cheney's political future, Colorado River crisis, back to school

7:45am August 17, 2022

Liz Cheney lost her House seat, but her fight against ex-President Donald Trump continues. A water crisis on the Colorado River is worsening. Millions of children are beginning a new school year.

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Schools in Mississippi face another year in the shadow of the pandemic

5:03am August 17, 2022

As students return to classrooms for the new school year, we visit one district, in Jackson, Miss., to hear how school leaders, teachers and families are feeling.

Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Ill., is prepared to help students isolate if they test positive for monkeypox.

How colleges are preparing for a new public health threat: monkeypox

4:44pm August 16, 2022

by Pooja Salhotra

The risk of contracting monkeypox is still low in the U.S., but colleges are already seeing cases.

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An ITT Technical Institute campus in Rancho Cordova, Calif., is seen on Sept. 6, 2016. Students who used federal loans to attend ITT Tech as far back as 2005 will automatically get that debt canceled.

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$3.9 billion in debt is canceled for former students of ITT Tech

1:03pm August 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

The cancelation in federal student debt for 208,000 borrowers came after authorities found "widespread and pervasive misrepresentations" at the defunct college chain, the Education Department said.

Students on campus at the University of Michigan.

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Colleges ease COVID-19 restrictions as fall semester begins for millions of students

5:06am August 16, 2022

by Elissa Nadworny

Requirements to test and mask and be vaccinated are becoming less common as colleges shift away from treating COVID-19 as an emergency.

Morehouse College is one of several historically Black colleges and universities seeing a surge in applications and enrollments in recent years.

After the rise of BLM, Black students and their families are heading back to HBCUs

9:47am August 15, 2022

by Shauneen Miranda

Some historically Black colleges and universities have seen increases in application and enrollment numbers after years of decline.

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There's a nationwide shortage of Black male school psychologists

9:20am August 14, 2022

by Pooja Salhotra

Psychologists play a critical role in K-12 schools and there's a clear mismatch between the demographics of school psychologists and the student populations they serve.

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HBCUs see a historic jump in enrollments

5:10pm August 13, 2022

Since the desegregation of higher education, Black enrollment at HBCUs has been on the decline, but that's changing. NPR's Michel Martin discusses this with university administrator Walter Kimbrough.

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Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools awarded grant to locate absent students

4:39pm August 12, 2022

by Amy Diaz

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools has been awarded a $382,300 grant from the state to identify and locate students who haven't been showing up to class.