Trump Admin. Defunds a Program to Help Launch Teacher Apprenticeships

Trump Admin. Defunds a Program to Help Launch Teacher Apprenticeships

The grant from the Labor Department assisted states and districts as they created hands-on teacher apprenticeships.

Trump’s cuts to teacher training leave some rural school districts, aspiring educators in the lurch

Research shows that high-quality teachers are the most important factor in student achievement — yet there’s a chronic shortage of them in low-income schools. (Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report)Jaci Grado has wanted to be an educator since she was in kindergarten. Her love of teaching solidified in high school when she worked at an after-school program in her hometown of Schuyler, Nebraska.  The biggest employer in Schuyler is the Cargill beef …

Trump’s cuts to teacher training leave rural school districts, aspiring educators in the lurch

Jaci Grado has wanted to be an educator since she was in kindergarten. Her love of teaching solidified in high school when she worked at an after-school program in her hometown of Schuyler, Nebraska. The biggest employer in Schuyler is the Cargill beef processing plant, which relies on immigrant labor. More than 70 percent of the town’s 6,500 residents are Hispanic, including Grado, whose parents immigrated from Mexico. The second-biggest employ…

Financial aid follies: The Trump administration and college affordability

“Maybe breaking these programs is not an unfortunate side effect that might happen. It’s actually the intended goal, to cause disruption.” That was Judith Scott-Clayton, a professor of economics and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, telling the Chronicle of Higher Education that she was worried the Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of Education...