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Program Director Wendy Shaia speaks about the $5.5 million grant. Thanks to the grant, select students graduating from the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work will be funneled directly into local public schools as mental health professionals. Photo by Bri Hatch/WYPR.

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University of Maryland Baltimore receives $5.5 million to send social workers to local schools

Bri Hatch

The school-based fellows will increase diversity, access in mental health services for students.

Jordan Braithwaite, 21, center, an undergrad at Grambling State University in Louisiana facing over $10,000 in student loans, demonstrates outside the Supreme Court, Friday, June 30, 2023, in Washington, DC. A sharply divided Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loan debts for millions of Americans. Conservative justices were in the majority in the 6-3 decision last June that effectively killed the $400 billion plan that President Joe Biden announced last year. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Programs

Searching for just solutions to America's student debt crisis

Tom Hall

The nation's massive $1.7 trillion student-loan debt — and the efforts to help many of the 43 million borrowers burdened by that debt — are fueling a volatile political debate. An education reporter, a student debt advisor and a Maryland lawmaker join us today to discuss some equitable paths out of the crisis.

FILE - In this July 8, 2014 file photo, people walk on Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

WYPR News

Maryland universities receive $2.5 million in funds for mental health training

Scott Maucione

The federal grants are aimed at tackling the child mental health crisis.

Graduating students fill the Columbia University campus in New York City during a 2017 graduation ceremony. Nearly 45 million Americans owe $1.6 trillion in college loan debt, and the federal government is considering a variety of approaches to either forgiving that debt or relieving the burden of monthly repayments. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Programs

America's $1.6 trillion college loan debt problem: Some perspectives

Tom Hall

NPR's education reporter and two Black doctors at Yale Med School talk about steps the federal government is taking to relieve the massive college-loan debt burden now facing 45 million Americans.

John B. King, president-on-leave of the national non-profit Education Trust, is a former US Education Secretary in the Obama Administration. He is one of ten Democratic primary candidates running for Maryland Governor. (photo courtesy John King for MD Governor Campaign)

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John B. King, Democratic primary candidate for Maryland Governor

Tom Hall

The former US Education Secretary in the Obama White House discusses his Democratic primary campaign for MD Governor, with Lt. Gov. candidate Michelle Siri, and their vision for Maryland.