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Stories by Sarah Butrymowicz
Posted Apr 13, 2022, 6:54 am
Sarah Butrymowicz & Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report
Each year, thousands of aspiring truck drivers sign up for training with some of the nation’s biggest freight haulers - but the training programs often fail to deliver the compensation and working conditions they promise.... Read more»
Posted Nov 24, 2021, 1:56 pm
Sarah Butrymowicz & Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report
Tuition financing companies have positioned themselves as crucial cogs in the for-profit education industry - playing a critical role in powering the sector financially - but advocates warn that they can be exploitative and nothing more than an instrument that leads to additional debt.... Read more»
Posted Sep 20, 2021, 10:03 am
Sarah Butrymowicz
/The Hechinger Report
Statistics released as part of new federal data on student enrollment in career and technical programs help paint a picture of a system in which Black and Hispanic students benefit less often from classes connected to higher-paying careers and college degrees than their white peers.... Read more»
Posted Jan 11, 2016, 1:57 pm
Sarah Butrymowicz
/The Hechinger Report
A Supreme Court case argued Monday could significantly weaken government unions across the country. If the justices rule in favor of the plaintiffs every state in the country will essentially become a “right-to-work” state, where employees who choose not to belong to a public union won’t have to give it fees of any kind. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 30, 2015, 2:25 pm
Sarah Butrymowicz
/The Hechinger Report
Forty-two states and the District of Columbia are now using the same math and English standards, but the tests they use to determine how well students have mastered them still vary significantly. So even though, in theory, students in Connecticut, Wisconsin and Arizona are all learning the same thing, they'll be measured differently.... Read more»
Posted Jul 6, 2015, 1:01 pm
Sarah Butrymowicz
/The Hechinger Report
Until now, if you wanted to know how a school district’s high school graduation rate fared against other states or regions, you’d have to rely on state averages from the federal government. We decided that’s not good enough.... Read more»
Posted Oct 28, 2010, 8:39 am
Sarah Butrymowicz
/The Hechinger Report
Good news for college students: even as increases in the cost of college continue to outpace inflation, students are actually paying less to attend college now (when financial aid is taken into account) than they were a year ago.... Read more»