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AUGUST 7, 2023

Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes and getting into confrontations with teachers. In the 2015-2016 school year, Black students lost 103 days of learning per 100 students, 82 more days than their white peers. It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In Tennessee, however, half of the residents found eligible for VR services in 2015 didn’t get any, according to federal data. Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. More than 40 percent of counselor positions are vacant.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In 20 states, more than one-third of cases stretched past the 90-day limit in 2015. But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit. Close to 14,000 cases stretched past a year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Let me just quit.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But after the episode at the hospital, the threat assessment team determined that AJ was an ongoing safety threat due to a history of “concerning behaviors,” according to the state investigation, which was prompted by a complaint Richmond filed with the Colorado Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

With its jumble of slate-gray concrete buildings mixed in with the skyscrapers of downtown Atlanta, Georgia State now graduates more black students with bachelor’s degrees every year than any other nonprofit school in the United States ( 1,777 in 2015 ). Related: Colleges’ promises to diversify face one challenge: finding black faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

s long history of segregation and racist policies. 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. He knew Montgomery County had a long history of high performance for most students, but not all of them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. And last fall, the Kincade Fire forced the largest evacuation in Sonoma County history. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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In 2015, amid rising arrivals of asylum-seeking families along the Mexico-US border, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) constructed and opened a facility in Dilley intended to detain some of those families while they underwent one of the initial stages of the legal process: the credible or reasonable fear interview.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

. — In front of the iconic Old Manse, the oldest building in Arkansas constructed solely for the purpose of educating black students, there’s a plaque recounting the rich and poignant history of Arkansas Baptist College. Department of Education ; the figures are for 2015-16, the most recent period available. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Since 2015, when Florida State University began to counsel incoming freshmen on the wisdom of 15 credits, those who took the advice have actually earned higher G.P.A.’s. Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. TRANSFERRING. Watch those credits closely.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Once they do arrive on campus, many students who show poor math and English skills are diverted into no-credit remedial (also called “developmental”) courses , which makes them 74 percent more likely to drop out of college than students who aren’t, according to the advocacy group Education Reform Now; those who do finish take nearly a year longer.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. and in its schools.

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APRIL 8, 2021

In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. That means they’re not “reading Mark Twain and Shakespeare and Maya Angelou,” taking algebra or learning world history, said Raymond Pierce, president of the Southern Education Foundation.

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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. Experts — and history — suggest that school districts need much more than what federal and state governments have provided so far.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”. History when they reach high school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For example, Brooklyn Tech, from which de Blasio’s son, Dante, graduated in 2015, gets about 88 percent of the amount it is supposed to based on the Fair Student Funding formula (or $5,328 per pupil this year). That is a legacy of years of state budget shortfalls that routinely leave the city with less from the state than promised.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It was his dream, and he began teaching the course a couple years before debates about teaching Black history and critical race theory swept the nation. He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year. During his fourth year, Thorne started teaching an African American Studies course that he designed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Out of 14 scheduled visits, dating from October 2014 to June 2015, the hospital counted Jacob as a “no show” for nine of them. Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

For example, in 2010, the hate watch group the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and other advocacy organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisiana Department of Education. Related: A professor’s proposed Black History Month course for one student: President Donald Trump.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. We have a long history of not catering to these populations,” Mora said. percent of CSU students now finishing in four years , up from 19 percent in 2015. ( Department of Education says.).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

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. billion for the Child Care and Development Fund, the single largest increase in the fund’s history. Credit: Photo: Lillian Mongeau/Hechinger Report. Department of Health and Human Services.

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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.”. But education reform absent an effort to dismantle segregated schools is equally bad.

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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). I also think we need to bring art back to school,” added classmate Ashley Graves.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

In 2015, Guthrie, a sixth-grade teacher and father of three, had approached the superintendent of the school district where he worked, hopeful she would sign a resolution endorsing action on climate change. But after attending an advocacy event in Washington two years later, and hearing that the U.S. He says he got nowhere.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Part of the Every Student Succeeds Act passed in 2015, it requires states – many for the first time this year – to reveal publicly how much money each school gets per student. A girl stopped coming to school later appeared on a “missing child” flyer that her principal discovered in the mail one morning. And on and on. spends less.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I teach history and social studies at New York University. The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. If you’re a student or a parent, it can be confusing. I’m a historian.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton reads “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to a preschool class at a YMCA in Rochester, New Hampshire on June 15, 2015. history, Americans may be about to elect a president whose signature issue is early childhood. As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. Read the whole series.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donald Trump’s administration was known for its advocacy of school choice, but that wasn’t something he talked much about on the campaign trail in 2015 or 2016; it only came into focus with his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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