By Nya Brunson / Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan reporting for the Central State-Ohio News Connection Collaboration. Higher education institutions across the United States are getting an increase in attention. In Ohio and many other states across the country, there has been an increase in restrictions on higher education and what can be taught in these institutions. .
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Applications for the state s new private-tuition voucher program are double what lawmakers anticipated. Critics of the plan say it will divert even more money than they anticipated away from Iowa s traditional public-school students. When lawmakers legalized Iowa s Education Savings Accounts, they anticipated about 14,000 families would apply for the scholarship, which makes more than $7,600 available for parents to pay for private school tuition. .
At the start of this year, a Pennsylvania middle school teacher was chosen among 12 finalists statewide to receive one of the profession s highest honors, and he s been busy since then. Ryan Hardesty, a seventh and eighth grade social studies teacher at Highland Middle School in the Blackhawk School District in Beaver County, has traveled the state to collaborate with other educators, since becoming Teacher of the Year. He believes the goal of education is to meet the needs of the diverse set of learners coming into his classroom, through engaging and rigorous work to push them to reach their full potential. .
As colleges gear up to welcome students for the fall semester, there is a growing focus on supporting students who transfer from one school to another to complete their studies. In North Carolina, the average college student carries a debt of around $30,000, making it imperative for those who want to transfer to seek out the best options in terms of affordability and whether the credits they ve already earned can be transferred. Benjamin Levine, assistant director of admissions at William Peace University, said they are working to address the concerns of incoming transfer students. .