Sarah Carr

2 months ago | hechingerreport.org | Sarah Carr

DANVERS, Mass. — It’s a rainy fall day in New England, but that doesn’t stop a group of students at Essex Tech North Shore Agricultural & Technical High School from donning work boots and hard hats and getting to work building a vegetable wash station on campus. This afternoon, they are installing wire mesh and prepping for a concrete pour under the watchful eye of Laborers’ Local 22 member Chris Moore, their teacher.

Jan 23, 2025 | 19thnews.org | Sarah Carr |Jacob Orledge |Jackie Mader |Eleanor Klibanoff

Published This story about early intervention was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. JOLIET, Ill. — After several challenging and stressful months in the neonatal intensive care unit, Karen Heath couldn’t wait to take her triplet sons home. The boys had been born severely premature at 25 weeks, each weighing a bit over a pound.

Jan 23, 2025 | hechingerreport.org | Sarah Carr

JOLIET, Ill. — After several challenging and stressful months in the neonatal intensive care unit, Karen Heath couldn’t wait to take her triplet sons home. The boys had been born severely premature at 25 weeks, each weighing a bit over a pound. In the early hours, doctors cautioned they would not survive long. The triplets, thankfully, proved the doctors wrong. But for about three months, Heath was not allowed to hold them, satisfying herself with photos, videos and kisses blown.

Dec 10, 2024 | mondaq.com | Amy Gibson |Sarah Carr

In our previous blog posts here and here, we outlined important deadlines, requests for extensions to such deadlines and new regulations under the federal Pay Equity Act (the "Act"). As of September 3, 2024, most Canadian federally regulated workplaces with 10 or more employees were required to post their pay equity plans, unless an extension was obtained from the Pay Equity Commissioner (the "Commissioner").

Nov 3, 2024 | ukyouth.org | Sarah Carr

UK Youth published a new report with Institute for Government that sets out a clear path for government to unlock the power of preventative services, including youth work.  The report sets out how the new government can use the opportunity of a new parliament to shift to a preventative approach to public services that seeks to address and manage citizens’ problems before they reach crisis point.