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If you are a regular Hechinger Report reader — if you're not, you should be — you probably know that we love highlighting solutions to seemingly intractable education problems, such as the desperate shortage of affordable child care in the U.S. Here’s one that is working in Montana’s Missoula County, where the number of available child care spots meets only 44 percent of total demand, and just 32 percent of the demand for infant care.
Missoula County is finding a way by converting unused public buildings, including schools that were closed due to changing enrollment conditions, throwing a lifeline to working parents in this rural area. None of it was easy.
Nor was it easy, elsewhere in the country, to figure out how, or whether, to teach students when temperatures stick toward triple digits, as our managing editor Caroline Preston explains. It’s yet another reason to sign up for her new climate change newsletter.
Also this week, we have the first episode of the new season of our popular “College Uncovered” podcast, produced in collaboration with GBH News. It’s a stark reminder of the contentious politics roiling college campuses. As always, we appreciate help spreading the news: Become a member!
Liz Willen, Editor
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Like many communities across the country, Missoula County, Montana, has a desperate shortage of affordable child care. But Missoulians have found one part of the solution hiding in plain sight: unused public buildings, such as schools closed to accommodate changing enrollments.
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