The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I wrote a piece about these concerns back in 2015 in the early days of the new free lunch option. Yet only half of these eligible schools in Missouri chose to participate because the federal government doesn’t reimburse for the full cost of the meals until more than 62.5 percent of the students are in public assistance programs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Once a school identifies a student as homeless, the federal government requires districts to pay to transport the student to their preferred school, regardless of cost or distance. School districts also receive state grants to boost what little, if any, money they get from the federal government to find and support unhoused kids.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 By 2015, Pennsylvania had cut funding to its public universities by $3,758 per full-time student, giving its students only about two-thirds the national average of what states contribute to higher ed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

The federal government subsidizes breakfast for close to 12.5 million in missing resources ,” according to a 2015 report on education funding by the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust. More than 40 percent of students of color go to high-poverty schools, compared to only 8.5 percent of their white counterparts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

And many of the public, government-run schools – where 70 percent of all children study – have no computers or tablets. A more nuanced view of how blended learning is working in India can be seen in a 2015 report done by the membership and advocacy group CoSN. India has also had long had a problem with keeping girls in school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The transparency mandate was tucked into the 2015 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act but didn’t require states to report that data until June 30 of this year. District administrators are committed, as is the school board, and even the county government has embarked on an equity mission for the broader community.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A review by The Hechinger Report of complaints to the Colorado Department of Education found that district threat determinations appeared to flout disability law in at least four other cases since 2015. Advocacy demonstrating the harm threat assessments may pose to students with disabilities could be having an effect.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The culprit, say experts and academics, has been the rules governing community college placement decisions. The California Acceleration Project, an advocacy group founded by faculty, reported that pass rates for underprepared students at Cuyamaca in college-level math jumped to 67 percent last year, up from 10 percent the year before.

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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 It sends a message: The federal government does believe [physical education] should be part of a student’s education; it should be part of the school day.”. Girls, black students and Hispanic students get less exercise than white boys.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Tribal nations and states have struggled with state and federal governments over jurisdiction and land since the inception of the United States, says Alex Pearl, who is Chickasaw and a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

In 2011, federal figures show, 201 of its incoming freshmen got Pell Grants, part of more than $325 billion the Congressional Budget Office estimates the government has paid out through that program in the last decade to help low-income students nationwide earn degrees. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

That means a family of four with two children survived on $24,008, the income level at which a family is considered to be extremely poor by the federal government. When the federal government overhauled America’s welfare system 20 years ago, TANF replaced the former cash-assistance program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. That’s what happened at the University of California, Santa Cruz, which in a 2015 draft strategic plan said it was “ asking every program on campus to review its degree requirements and, where possible, to reduce them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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. And Peterson Lent says state governments must do more than simply have supportive policies in place.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

One is that there’s no limit to how much the federal government will lend to graduate students to pay for school — they can borrow up to the entire cost of a program. It’s a simpler, more profitable market that also has an unlimited source of debt financing courtesy of the federal government.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We’re living in the most costly, expensive times that I’ve lived through as superintendent,” said Gestson, who has been in that job since 2015. Have governments spent enough money to meet the unexpected and very steep costs of the last year? The federal government, so far, has provided two major stimulus packages.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. For Black boys and other children of color the increased the risk of being punished at school begins as early as preschool, according to government data.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The analysis used federal enrollment data for the 2015-16 school year, the most recent year for which that data is available from the U.S. These schools represented one in 10 charters operating during the 2015-16 school year. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It was shut down again a year later in 2015 when a surprise inspection of Manu-Lee’s home found her with 14 children in her care, eight of them infants — four times the legal number of infants for a home-based provider. This is a situation where the government needs to step up and resource that, including state governments.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Former President Barack Obama’s Department of Education embraced the idea in the 2015 education bill known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, which paved the way for the federal grants. These types of transactions enable private sector companies to be responsive to the requests from local/state government who have limited funding.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

At those 20 institutions with 100 or more GI Bill recipients eligible to finish in 2014, the government data disclose, even the ones with the highest veteran success rates managed to graduate only one in five. And San Diego State’s figures go through 2012, while Florida State’s cover the period through 2015. Photo: Peggy Peattie.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In all, the GI Bill — which costs $11 billion a year, according to the General Accounting Office — paid for all or part of 450,000 degrees earned by 340,000 students between 2009 and 2015, the study found. Some of those veterans earned more than one degree.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. The allure of helping disadvantaged children has combined with an openness, on the part of government actors, to private partnerships and technocratic fixes, especially those aimed at disciplining teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. On May 11, 2015, Grimes was voted in unanimously as Russellville’s new school superintendent. Yet their success matters: Today in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Like the majority of parents in her income bracket, Haskins gets no government help covering that cost. In fact, the federal government provided child care subsidies to just one in six children eligible to receive them in 2015, according to the U.S. Credit: Photo: Lillian Mongeau/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The federal government is pushing for more information to be made available about college costs and success rates, saying that will help students avoid incurring unmanageable debt. The federal government has a website that promises you can “Calculate your personal net price.” College graduates in the academic year just ended.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

The government could use it to give larger scholarships or grants to students in state universities, colleges and technical schools. In 2015-16, the HOPE program gave out more than $612 million in aid to students. Tennessee gave out $311 million from its 2015-16 proceeds and keeps $110 million in reserves. That’s down from $747.6

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. Multiple advocacy organizations are pushing to increase the eligibility threshold for the program (now 150% of the federal poverty line).

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The Hechinger Report

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). Related: How I broke away from the endless cycle of poverty, meth and jail in rural Kentucky.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. The pervasiveness of advocacy writing helped usher in a “post-truth” era, where people consumed copious amounts of narrative over fact.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds. In contrast, attendance at government-funded preschools is the norm in many countries. The government is subsidizing middle class child care anyway. ”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2021

million homes, according to the climate advocacy organization Generation180. But much as the pandemic forced a reckoning about the physical condition of America’s classrooms, it may also have cleared a way for the federal government to rebuild them. Credit: Government Accountability Office.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A recent Associated Press analysis of national school enrollment data found that “as of school year 2014-2015, more than 1,000 of the nation’s 6,747 charter schools had minority enrollment of at least 99 percent, and the number has been rising steadily.”. Related: When a dollar and a dream isn’t enough.

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