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It just goes against everything we know about child development and what’s best for children,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. In 2013, the Waterford Institute received an $11.5 million federal grant to expand the program to rural children in Utah.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

That’s in part because the college itself is young, having graduated its first class in 2013, and small, with 617 undergraduates in the last academic year — characteristics freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education. UMR was first among these schools to launch its pilot.

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MARCH 21, 2022

The Afterschool Alliance – an advocacy group – was instrumental in securing the 1 percent set aside for afterschool and making sure that after-school programs would qualify for learning loss. The Afterschool Alliance also cited an unpublished conference paper from 2013, which tracked 1,000 elementary school students over time.

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JUNE 14, 2021

In 2013, families at a Seattle high school raked in more than $100,000 for a raffle to win a Tesla Model S. Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. In 2013-14, average per-pupil spending on public education in the U.S.

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He graduated from high school with a Regents diploma in 2013 — a feat accomplished by only 18 percent of students with disabilities in New York City that year, compared to 70 percent of students without disabilities. She called an advocacy hotline, appealed the decision and won, although it took several more months before she was reimbursed.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. In the previous survey year, 2013-14, that school had reported no use of restraints and seclusions on special education students.

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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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AUGUST 29, 2017

Mississippi also had the highest percentage of children who visited an emergency room due to accident or injury in 2013, and one of the lowest percentages of mothers who initiated breastfeeding. In 2014, the state had the highest percentage of preterm births as well as the highest infant mortality rate.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Educational occupations with the highest concentration of women are among the lowest paid, according to a 2013 report published by the National Survey of Early Care and Education. Related: Operation Varsity Blues proves we need affirmative action. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

Enrollment in these programs has increased by 72 percent and an estimated 4,903 children were served in 2019, up from 2,857 in 2013. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly. You can read more about PRE4CLE’s work in their five-year report, available here.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2013, Mississippi passed a law to use science-based instruction to ensure students read at or above grade level by the end of third grade. Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation.

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APRIL 22, 2019

From 2007 to 2013 the district’s taxpayers had approved several bonds, totaling more than $46.6 In 2013, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined a Missouri-based underwriting firm $200,000 for “improperly gifting” more than 2,000 tickets to sporting events. Some firms have gotten in trouble for going even further.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

“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.”. They need more counselors to efficiently meet the demand for services.”. It’s a start,” said Hammett.

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AUGUST 2, 2016

The result was a tool called Learning Lists, which was prototyped by one of the school’s math teachers in 2013 using spreadsheet features on Google Sheets. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. LPS set out to develop a home-grown ed-tech tool to make this personalized learning system more efficient.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But not every student can make the leap to full-time status, said Karen Stout, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Achieving the Dream; many have neither the money nor the time. More than 1,000 students have taken the state up on the offer since it began three years ago.

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MARCH 26, 2018

Now a team of five researchers from Rutgers University in collaboration with the Education Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization, has created a complicated model that predicts how much money it would cost each school district in America to get its students to reach average test scores in math and reading, as recorded from 2013 to 2015.

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JANUARY 28, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “It matters who’s enrolled at flagships, because they tend to go on to be leaders in their states, particularly in politics and in business,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, an advocacy group that focuses on college access.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

According to a 2013 study , just 1 in 5 California primary care physicians offered Spanish-language autism screening. Whiter communities are more likely to have built-in support groups, advocacy organizations, and information networks to disseminate facts about the signs of autism, the importance of early diagnosis, and available services.

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MARCH 13, 2017

The regional research group Southern Education Foundation found that in 2013, poor students accounted for 51 percent of the public school population. The majority of students currently in public schools in the U.S. are low-income and concentrated in the same schools. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

A 2019 National Student Clearinghouse report, “Some College, No Degree,” found that only 12 percent of people who had last enrolled in a community college between 1993 and 2013 returned to any type of degree-granting higher education institution in the next five years. Higher education experts worry that many students never will.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. As in Missouri, the most recent federal data shows that the new community eligibility program is having a modest impact on how we count low-income students nationally. During the same period, the U.S.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It A 2013 study of nearly 12,000 Nebraska students also found that aerobically fit students were more likely to pass the state’s standardized math and reading tests, regardless of their weight or socioeconomic status.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. Between 1970 and 2013, the percentage of Americans in the lowest income quartile who had a college degree by age 24 rose from 6 to 9 percent. “So,

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

percent decline in course offerings between 2013 and 2016. It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Between the fall of 2013 and late March 2016, Terry High School reported 53 arrests by school police officers, most for disorderly conduct. There were six arrests at Terry High School during the 2013-14 school year. Its 2014-15 arrest rate of 1.5 percent compares unfavorably to the national referral rate of.06 06 percent.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials. 47 percent of graduates at Meadowbrook High School in rural Ohio enrolled in associate or bachelor’s degree programs in 2016, up from 28 percent in 2013.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. “They completely made sense to me.” Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. The homework gap isn’t new. for the nonprofit.

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JULY 16, 2018

Since 2013, the program has served almost 8,000 students in its four education centers and awarded $8.5 The first two centers opened in 2013 with 750 students between them. Another challenged an eager student to a building contest at a LEGO table. million in grants to other pre-K centers and school districts around the city.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. Lusher enrolls students in kindergarten through 12th grade across its two buildings.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

It also shows that only 8 percent of high school graduates in 2013 completed a full college- and career-prep curriculum. is a very different question than “Are more young adults prepared for success after high school?” And the answers you get to the latter can depend heavily on whom you ask.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

“It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. Nearly half of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended during the 2013-14 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

On a trip back home to the Dominican Republic, she began dating Jesus Hernandez; they married in 2013. She also referred Hernandez to an advocacy center at BMCC where she could apply for food, counseling and emergency funds. Hernandez moved back in with her mother and worked at various health care jobs. Anjerlin was born the next year.

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APRIL 21, 2019

In 2013, the Legislature passed a landmark education reform that offered students flexible pathways to graduation and more dual-enrollment options so they could earn credits toward college while in high school, and required the implementation of personalized learning plans for every student.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

A 2013 whistleblower lawsuit filed by former employees against HotChalk alleged the company violated a federal law against providing performance-based bonuses to college recruiters. GMU is one of a number of schools across the country that have faced challenges from faculty advocacy groups over these partnerships.

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