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The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years. Since then, the numbers have slipped to the single digits, with just 5 percent of the class of 2016 finishing within six years, according to a data analysis from the charter school network. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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JULY 15, 2019

These issues are only amplified when students transition from high school to college. The differences between high school and college are stark. While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The nation’s school districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than is needed to maintain “healthy and safe” learning environments, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization. Kansas districts saw their financial problems amplified by Republican Gov.

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JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. based education advocacy group. “It

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

Robert Wells graduated from high school with a B+ average. It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. More advocacy.”. at Nashville State Community College.

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APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. This past fall, Ragan Toppan, 16, walked out of her Algebra II class at Deering High School to protest her school’s recent switch to standards-based grading.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it. Difficulty catching up and feeling included.

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APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. Windsor Locks parents routinely refer to these communication and self-advocacy skills in describing the impact of the model, which ties into a more systemic shift in the district.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. In California, Shelly Spiegel-Coleman is executive director of Californians Together, an advocacy organization focused on improving educational opportunities for students learning English.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. 19 states still allow corporal punishment in public schools. So why is it that children attending public schools, it’s OK to hit them?”.

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JUNE 4, 2019

The first time Hsiulien Perez attended Indiana University Northwest, in the early 1990s, she had just graduated from high school and given birth to her first child. The steel mills where Perez’s father worked paid good wages to people straight out of high school. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous.

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APRIL 17, 2024

In a study she co-authored of an unusual program that gives college scholarships to both high school students and their parents in Toledo, Ohio, the Institute for Policy Research found that students and parents alike performed at or above average , despite what Sommer noted were financial challenges and limited academic preparation. “Ask

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JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. The Nokomis Regional High School ninth grader said she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

After graduating from Northside High School in Columbus, she dreamed of attending Savannah College of Art and Design, but it was too expensive. So she made what she believed was a more realistic financial choice — in 2012 she enrolled at Columbus State University. That’s obviously a huge component to the student loan debt.”.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Before, the state already had two voucher programs: the 2012 Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program, and in 2013, the Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship for Students with Speech-Language Impairments. John Moore, R-Brandon, likens Medicaid expansion to school privatization. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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MARCH 21, 2017

“We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship. He’s a survivor,” Watfa Shama, his high school principal, said.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Half a dozen of the 4,100 students in Dillon gathered in a conference room at Dillon High School and said they’re proud of their school and community, which is near the North Carolina border 70 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach. The growth in the graduation rate at Dillon High School over four years.

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APRIL 6, 2017

It’s all part of an awareness campaign called “15 to Finish,” pioneered at the University of Hawaii in 2012, that has taken hold in dozens of states. Many public and private universities have similar setups, moving away from per-credit tuition to a flat rate for 12 or more credits. Some states’ figures are even higher. It’s hard to cope.

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JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. A new high school facility is under construction. Lake Oconee Academy is expanding.

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Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation. The victory was bittersweet.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

In between those two jobs, Cardona had the distinction of being the youngest principal in the state at age 28, was named principal of the year in 2012, and served as co-chairman of the Legislative Achievement Gap Task Force. That’s all while getting married, parenting two children and earning a doctorate at UConn’s Neag School of Education.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

But by the time her son, Ian, entered high school, Barrera decided to invite a bilingual volunteer from a local nonprofit to sit with her and to remind the school team of her rights. “I About 791,000 English learners participated in special education in 2020, a jump of nearly 30 percent since 2012.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Dropout rates rose in the fall of 2020 to their highest level since 2012, the Clearinghouse reports. Related: Some colleges ease up on pushing undergrads into picking majors right away.

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MARCH 25, 2021

One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018. One advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about this issue from September 2016 to December 2018, according to the complaint.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

I knew it was education after high school, but that was it,” Nino-Zavala said. “I That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education.

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APRIL 28, 2016

Richard was one of the brightest kids in his high school class. A pilot program on five campuses at the City University of New York, where the number of students who disclosed that they are on the spectrum has more than doubled since 2012, has shown promising results. Photo: Rita Obeid. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

They also included a provision that critics say is doing just the opposite: an annual bonus of almost $1,000 per student at 13 of the city’s elite high schools, where students are wealthier than the city average and alumni foundations can raise millions of dollars for extras.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

I knew it was education after high school, but that was it,” Nino-Zavala said. “I That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

A student walks toward Elko High School on Dec. Nationally, about 25 percent of superintendents have made a similar decision in the past year, compared to a typical turnover rate of 14 to 16 percent, according to the American Association of School Administrators. “And Robinson concluded they weren’t and resigned in June 2021.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Candy Marshall, president of the scholarship and advocacy group TheDream.US., Since the Obama Administration created DACA in 2012, more than 825,000 undocumented immigrants have successfully applied for the protection. Candy Marshall, president of the scholarship and advocacy group TheDream.US.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No They lived in various apartments in the Bronx, where Hernandez excelled in school. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed). There were more setbacks.

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MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Looking back, our high school has crowned a Latina Homecoming Queen, as voted by the student body and has recognized the first Latino Valedictorian. In his first four-year term, he had closed three high schools because of falling enrollment and a budget shortfall he inherited. School gave me a sense of hope,” she said. “I

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Aguilar had a secret she was holding close, one that made her college dream seem more impossible the nearer she got to high school graduation. It was before the Obama administration introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA for short) in 2012 that gave some immigrants who were brought to the U.S.

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JANUARY 13, 2019

Related: Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads. But black and Hispanic students in particular are not going to or graduating from college at levels anywhere near high enough for states like Iowa or the nation in general to meet its goals, the nonprofit advocacy group The Education Trust reports.

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