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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 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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The company also announced a partnership in August with the University of London and the London School of Economics and Political Science to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in data science and business analytics for $25,000. That’s substantially less than overseas undergraduates pay to attend the London School of Economics in person.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. Some states’ figures are even higher. The process is overwhelming, with thousands of classes. And what if it’s full?

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JUNE 10, 2017

Former state education commissioner Stephen Bowen was a cheerleader for the idea during his tenure at the Maine Department of Education from 2011 to 2013. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In Key tenets of proficiency-based learning.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

As many as 150 schools belonged to 24 groups that met each spring to compare notes in this way, according to the advocacy organization The Institute for College Access and Success. An appeals court mostly agreed, but said MIT made a good argument that there were social and economic benefits to safeguarding limited financial aid.

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Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us González Camarena says that roughly 400 educators with DACA protection have gone through the teaching program since 2013. It’s there that he earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

There is a long history of underinvesting in education — and economic opportunity operations as a whole — within the department,” Cloud said. Curt Coy, who was the VA’s deputy under secretary for economic opportunity from 2011 until his retirement in late 2017, said it was hard to find resources for veterans’ educational issues.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. And a state push to fund schools more equitably with another tax measure failed in 2013. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, says that, in some parts of the country, organizations that oversee charters have started to take a more active role in ensuring that the schools enroll a diverse student body.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Since she graduated in 2013, the name of the old high school had changed, but not much else. Back in 2013, more than a fifth of her senior class didn’t graduate. Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Yakima, an agricultural hub surrounded by orchards amid dry hills, was hit hard by both the pandemic and the attendant economic collapse. based advocacy organization lobbying for anti-hunger programs. The need created by the pandemic’s economic shock is unprecedented, McDonough said.

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MARCH 29, 2018

Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy. In fact, interest rates were dragged down by the economic recession, costing Michigan State alone $130.2 The University of Michigan successfully lobbied in 2013 to shield much information about fund performance from the state’s open-records law.

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JULY 7, 2016

After that happened, the number of requests for exemptions rose from one in 2013 to 43 last year. This process of seeking exemptions has accelerated since the Obama administration asserted in 2014 that transgender and “gender nonconforming” students were protected from discrimination under Title IX, according to Human Rights Campaign.

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JULY 29, 2016

In her acceptance speech at the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia Thursday night, Hillary Clinton pledged to create new economic opportunities for all Americans by generating more and better jobs; expanding affordable childcare and preschool programs, and making higher education “debt-free for all.”. Convention coverage.

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