Sequoia Carrillo
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Sequoia Carrillo (opens the original)
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Sequoia Carrillo is an education reporter for NPR. She covers K-12 policy and regularly reports on issues like school segregation and infrastructure challenges for the network. Recently, she led a series of stories on the impacts of fentanyl in schools. She's also spent the past few years learning the ins and outs of the student loan system and hearing borrowers' stories. Her reporting on joint consolidation loans, a type of student loan that chained couples together even in cases of divorce and
Head Start got her out of homelessness. Trump proposal threatens that help for others (opens the original)
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Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. No one thing led to TaNisha Thomas becoming homeless. Things started to unravel when she lost her job at the shipping company DHL in 2021. She was pregnant, and she got so far behind on rent she had to move back home to Fort Worth, Texas. She remembers all the nights spent on the couches of family members and friends. Every morning started with a list of high-stakes questions rolling through her mind: "I don't know where we'
Limited screen time (opens the original)
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Phased roll out: Starting this week, 1st grade and under will have no screen time at all, in November, the rest of elementary school classes will have limits, with middle and high school students following later in the year. Tracking screen time: Students will have software on their personal tablets or computers that will keep track of the amount of screen time used per week. The software will not shut the device off once the limit is reached, instead it collects data for the district to comb th
The school year begins in LA with one big change: limited screen time (opens the original)
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Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. This year brings a new challenge for Armaghan Khan and many other teachers in the nation's second-largest school district: Ban screen time for younger students, and significantly limit it for older kids. "This is going to be a big impact for me," says Khan, who's spent his career in the Los Angeles Unified School District. "I would say about 75% of our work was on some kind of screen-based activity." As a science teacher, Kh
Trump administration proposes sweeping changes for Head Start, worrying advocates (opens the original)
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Today, the Trump administration is officially publishing a proposal that would change the nation's Head Start programs. Head Start serves more than 700,000 kids from low-income families each year from birth to age 5. And the administration says it can boost that number significantly with these changes. Advocates, though, are not so sure. NPR's Sequoia Carrillo is following this. So what is in the proposal? SEQUOIA CARRILLO, BYLINE: So a lot of it is about getting rid of federal standards that pr
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