The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. In 2014-15, the rate of homelessness among U.S. Sometimes we had to go to school late, because we had to wait for the bathroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The flurry of new state laws over the past five years is in large part the result of pressure from Decoding Dyslexia, a parent advocacy group with chapters in all 50 states. “Intensive advocacy falls on parents who have nothing to lose but the promising future a good education ensures our children,” said Cooper.

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A 2023 report showed that the experience of solitary confinement is far more prevalent than most previous estimates: for at least 22 hours each day, at least 122,840 people experience solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. The vast majority have been put in solitary for non-violent reasons.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

More than 800,000 people with disabilities found eligible for services received no assistance between 2010 and 2014, according to federal data. He lives in the Bronx, and in the fall of 2014, he was brimming with hope. Cathy Steffke, an advocacy specialist at Disability Rights Wisconsin. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Another 5 percent of the state money is to be spent on overcoming learning loss, which can also be used on after-school programs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

And a coalition of advocacy groups in New York is pushing for legislation there like California’s. Now, in addition to finally applying to graduate school, Wright-Glenn is considering starting an advocacy organization for other students who can’t get their transcripts. He’s already toying with a name: Free the Grades. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

“When these programs were designed, it was an acknowledgment that there were low-income students who had need, and of the importance of going to college,” said Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan National College Access Network. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

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. For decades, the school (then known as Santa Clara Day School) was run by the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

“Until we had a deep look at ourselves, we didn’t realize that we were selling them [students] short,” said James Capp, assistant provost for academic operations and planning at Florida Atlantic University, which Dickinson attends and where, as recently as 2014, fewer than one in five students was managing to graduate within four years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. Participation in the federal lunch program is used to track student poverty rates. Photo: Tovin Lapan. Related: In 6 states, school districts with the neediest students get less money than the wealthiest. percentage points — from 51.2

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

In 2014, the state had the highest percentage of preterm births as well as the highest infant mortality rate. These programs “really change the future for the most vulnerable babies born into poverty,” said Sarah McGee, national director of advocacy at Nurse-Family Partnership.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

According the Louisiana Department of Education, enrollment of African-American students decreased from 93 percent of total enrollment in 2004 to 87 percent in 2014. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Its graduation rate for first-generation students went up 32 percent between 2010 and 2014. For Hispanic students, it went from 22 to 54 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. In 2014-15, the charter school’s first year, some students went months without working on subjects they didn’t like.

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The Hechinger Report

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. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To The homework gap isn’t new. People have to remember “the pandemic isn’t over,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Without tribal status and consequent financial aid, Perrantes owed $27,000 in student loans after finishing her associate degree in clean energy technologies at Washington’s Shoreline Community College in 2014. She deferred her loan payments until she no longer could. Threatened with having her wages garnished, she filed for bankruptcy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The cost and logistics of child care can also make or break enrollment for community college students, about 30 percent of whom are parents, according to one estimate from 2014. Alamo also waived fees for the assessment test that first-time students lacking ACT or SAT scores must take.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Overall, the number of students who were held back in third grade dropped from 3,064 at the end of the 2014-15 school year to 2,307 at the end of 2015-16. In this 2014 photo, literacy coach Kristen Wells works with students at Emmalee Isable Elementary in West Jackson. That’s what the state has put in place.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. There are millions of FFN providers. They call us,” Martinez explained.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Sanders, who is African-American, first presented the idea for a dual-language program at Houston to the District of Columbia Public Schools in 2014. The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Its 2014-15 arrest rate of 1.5 By 2014, 30 percent of public schools had school resource officers, or SROs, the most common type of law enforcement on campuses. In the 2014-15 school year, the number of student arrests at Terry High School was more than triple that of the year before, increasing from 6 to 20. 06 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples. The agency said it has never penalized a state in this manner.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance. Source: The Demotivating Effect (and Unintended Message) of Awards by Carly D. Robinson, Jana Gallus, Monica G. A quick search on Pinterest or Teachers Pay Teachers websites reveals dozens of templates and examples.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

One nonprofit advocacy group calculates that 10 states spend more on employee pensions than on higher education; in Illinois, more than half of the $4.1 So have state employee pension obligations. billion for state universities and colleges goes to retirement costs, the independent Illinois Policy Institute reports.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. That comment came in response to a rare endeavor by a higher-education institution: a survey emailed to 10,555 of them in 2014 by the University of Washington to learn why some students left before graduating. Nobody noticed.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Melanie Tucci calculated that she would have to work about 30 hours a week as well as take out loans to make it through college when she started at Temple in 2014. Nearly 40 percent of them get no credit for any of the courses they have completed and lose 27 credits on average — or about a year of school, according to a 2014 federal study.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Abdi was at the top of her class, and Collins had worked with about 200 students like her in a new virtual advising program by College Possible , a nonprofit founded in 2000.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 27 percent of children in Louisiana lived below the poverty level in 2014. According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Only 1 percent of African-American students and 2 percent of Latino students who enrolled in the lowest level of remedial math in 2014 made it through an entry-level college math class within two years (the amount of time it’s supposed to take to earn a full associate’s degree). The results have been promising.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

In late 2014, the federal departments of justice and education released a joint letter urging school officials to improve education in juvenile detention facilities. The two parties negotiated a settlement and consent decree, which lasted from 2010 to 2014, and allowed the city and school board to agree to changes without admission of guilt.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

What happened in our district should not have happened, but it did,” said John Brazeal, who joined the district as its chief financial officer in 2014. We didn’t see any upside to that at all,” said Dirk Burke, executive director of the Missouri Association of Counties, an advocacy group that represents county governments.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Half a million, or about one in four, show up on campuses each fall not ready to take college courses in math or English, according to the advocacy organization Education Reform Now. That’s a feat a surprising number of high school graduates fail to accomplish.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 million in 2014. “We The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a nonprofit child advocacy and research organization, has been fighting for more financial support for relatives caring for children outside of the formal system for years.

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