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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. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. based education advocacy group. “It Photo: Kelsey Aske. And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

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APRIL 17, 2024

I’ll get back to you,’ ” said Marjorie Sims, managing director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute, one of a growing number of research, policy and advocacy organizations focusing on student-parents. The only time she could study was late at night [in the library], but the library said no.”

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Library Advocacy Tutoring Research 135

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MAY 19, 2024

The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years. The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

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Charter School Heritage Education K-12 138

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MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. “We I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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Library Tutoring Government K-12 97

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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. It was a well-timed initiative.

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Advocacy Library Humanities High School 62

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JUNE 6, 2022

The Nollie Jenkins Family Center led a fight against school-based corporal punishment here in rural Holmes County from 2012 to 2018, when a new superintendent asked for a policy change. Collins Elementary School inhabits a single-story brick building with a “little free library” in the front yard and a “discovery garden” in the back.

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Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

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AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Achievement gaps have narrowed somewhat for minority students, but the differences remain glaring: 72.5

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Middle School High School Government Advocacy 76