Meredith Kolodner

New York

Investigative Reporter at The Hechinger Report

Investigative reporter covering education @hechingerreport, D.C. native, Brooklyn convert, Liverpool F.C. fanatic. DM or email me [email protected]

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What parents and schools need to know

3 weeks ago | charlotteobserver.com | Meredith Kolodner |Marina Villeneuve

President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and teachers say mass federal layoffs mean that too few people are left to carry out a complicated law intended to protect some of the nation's most vulnerable students' right to an education.
Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know

3 weeks ago | hechingerreport.org | Meredith Kolodner |Marina Villeneuve

President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and teachers say mass federal layoffs mean that too few people are left to carry out a complicated law intended to protect some of the nation’s most vulnerable students’ right to an education.
Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know

3 weeks ago | thestate.com | Marina Villeneuve |Meredith Kolodner

President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and teachers say mass federal layoffs mean that too few people are left to carry out a complicated law intended to protect some of the nation’s most vulnerable students’ right to an education.
How the pandemic reshaped the lives of these parents, kids and educators

1 month ago | hechingerreport.org | Meredith Kolodner |Jackie Mader |Neal Morton |Caroline Preston

At first, it was supposed to last just a few weeks. Mayors and superintendents around the country announced schools would shut temporarily to halt the spread of a deadly virus that had officially been named “COVID-19” on Feb. 11, 2020. Many school districts hustled to get laptops and other devices to students and shifted learning online, even as educators warned that remote education would exacerbate inequalities.
Student loan borrowers misled by colleges were about to get relief. Trump fired people poised to help

1 month ago | msn.com | Sarah Butrymowicz |Meredith Kolodner

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Federal layoffs upended work to help misled student borrowers

1 month ago | hechingerreport.org | Sarah Butrymowicz |Meredith Kolodner

Student loan borrowers who said their lenders overcharged them were days away from getting help when the Trump administration fired the federal workers who were set to step in. The workers, from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, were also in the midst of helping another approximately 900 students defrauded by for-profit colleges who had been overwhelmingly, and wrongly, rejected from having their loans discharged, according to two people with direct knowledge of the work.
Hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities should be getting trained for work through pre-employment transition services — but aren't

1 month ago | hechingerreport.org | Meredith Kolodner

At a time when Americans have made clear that access to training and good jobs is a top priority, the Pre-Employment Transition Services program, intended to provide that training for students with disabilities, is serving a fraction of the students it should.
Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

2 months ago | youthtoday.org | Meredith Kolodner

This story was originally published by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. The best program to help students with disabilities get jobs is so hidden, ‘It’s like a secret society’There’s a half-billion-dollar federal program that is supposed to help students with disabilities get into the workforce when they leave high school, but most parents — and even some school officials — don’t know it exists.
Students With Disabilities Are Entitled To Job Training. Many Don't Get It

2 months ago | disabilityscoop.com | Meredith Kolodner

There’s a half-billion-dollar federal program that is supposed to help students with disabilities get into the workforce when they leave high school, but most parents — and even some school officials — don’t know it exists. As a result, hundreds of thousands of students who could be getting help go without it. New Jersey had the nation’s lowest proportion — roughly 2% — of eligible students receiving these services in 2023.
Job Training Exists for Students With Disabilities. Many Never Get It.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Meredith Kolodner

In Boonton, N.J., Linda Mauriello helps young people with disabilities prepare to enter the work force after they leave school. They learn to set career goals, create resumes and build relationships at work. Sometimes they get help finding internships and receive support on the job, too. One student with multiple disabilities trained at a school cafeteria, got hired and is still working there five years later.

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14 Jan 25

In the midst of all the debate about college, this seems significant -- freshmen enrollment didn't actually drop this fall. https://t.co/RU741dLzw5

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4 Nov 24

RT @jillbarshay: After I wrote about the dual enrollment explosion at U.S. high schools, readers said that too many dual enrollment credits…

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15 Oct 24

Beautiful and deeply reported story by @jackiemader "The government’s view isn’t that child care is a place to put children so parents can work, or even to prepare children for the rigors of elementary school. It’s about protecting childhood." https://t.co/ovsEL6ebX3

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Articles

What parents and schools need to know

Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know

Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know

How the pandemic reshaped the lives of these parents, kids and educators

Student loan borrowers misled by colleges were about to get relief. Trump fired people poised to help

Federal layoffs upended work to help misled student borrowers

Hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities should be getting trained for work through pre-employment transition services — but aren't

Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

Students With Disabilities Are Entitled To Job Training. Many Don't Get It

Job Training Exists for Students With Disabilities. Many Never Get It.

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