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National News

Closing Education Gap would Boost U.S. Economy: White House The Washington Informer

ESEA Rewrite: What to Expect From House-Senate Conference Education Week

Happy 50th anniversary, Head Start The Durango Herald

More children are in poverty today than before the Great Recession PBS NewsHour Online

Planning ahead for child care costs Grayson County News-Gazette

Thank you, Head Start, for opening a window of opportunity Arizona Capitol Times

What Poverty Does to Kids’ Brains Mother Jones

Presidential Candidates

Clinton on Facebook: ‘Black lives matter’ and other takeaways CNN Online

Does Bernie Sanders surge threaten Hillary? BBC America

Massachusetts

Central Mass. lawmakers seek override of kindergarten grant veto Telegram & Gazette

North Carolina

Charter schools and pre-K: A good match for North Carolina? The Charlotte Observer

Ohio

Merger combines three education-focused groups The Columbus Dispatch