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** When your disability gets you sent home from school ([link removed])
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Students with disabilities are often met with off-the-books suspensions


** Senators call for stronger rules to reduce off-the-books suspensions ([link removed])
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Students with disabilities are often sent home via “informal removals” that deprive them of school time but are not tallied as suspensions
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** In states where abortion is now outlawed, students ramp up activism ([link removed])
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University of South Dakota groups work to change the law and to find resources for those who may need them



** College admissions is already broken. What will happen if affirmative action is banned? ([link removed])
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Highly competitive private and flagship schools will likely enroll far-less-diverse freshman classes
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** Struggling small colleges are joining the ‘sharing economy’ — teaming up to share courses and majors ([link removed])
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Faced with declining enrollment, colleges find ways to add in-demand courses and attract reluctant students



** How can we improve early science education? New report offers clues ([link removed])
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Better training for teachers could help pre- and in-service educators teach science better, report finds
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