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A five-year grant issued by the Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs will help Benetech fund its DREAM Center program, making digital materials accessible to students with disabilities.

Policymakers should reform the Higher Education Act in a manner that more closely aligns the law with its main purpose of allocating federal student loans and grants to ease the cost of higher education, and should eliminate the numerous programs that have accumulated over the years that have failed to help low-income students pay for college.

Researchers, creatives, and art therapists from across Pennsylvania discuss the role that art can play in building and healing communities, and in achieving mental health and wellness. The Pennsylvania Arts Council offers resources to support members of the arts community as they work to stay safe amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health experts and advocates discuss how trauma affects people; the ways racial, gender, economic, and other inequalities factor into and compound the issue of tra...