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Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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Whether in response to the students’ arguments or not, the state did, in fact, raise spending for higher education for the coming 2016-2017 year, by 2.5 Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. It’s improved only slightly since.

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So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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Around 60 percent of large school districts surveyed by the National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, increased pay for subs during the pandemic. In 2016, the district launched a teaching fellowship program to provide yearlong contracts to about 30 aspiring teachers who are placed in its six schools.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Norphlet-Thompson said that in Mississippi’s rural, under-resourced, economically challenged communities, Head Start is critical for providing child care as well as medical care that children may not otherwise receive.

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JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations.

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So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. I have two little ones and their dads don’t help me,” said Perez, 45. Census Bureau.

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Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. “There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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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. It is every day.”.

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APRIL 23, 2019

That’s in part because the net price, or the amount students actually pay after discounts and financial aid, has increased nearly twice as fast for graduate as for undergraduate programs in the 10 years ending in 2016. Graduate school is way more expensive than undergrad,” Rivero said. Tuition and fees at the law school at St.

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But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I In 2016, Hernandez decided to go back to school for her associate degree in nursing at BMCC. At BMCC, whose students are among the most economically disadvantaged in the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. “How well we do in providing more resources for minority students is really the key to how well all of us will do,” Murdock said.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Supporting these efforts, the Department of Energy published a how-to report on building net-zero K-12 schools in 2016 and created a “Zero-Energy Schools Accelerator” program to give districts technical guidance.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples.

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JUNE 9, 2016

The school’s 2016-17 $9,618,184 budget, which is shared with the Mississippi School for the Blind, is roughly $330,000 less than last year’s budget. Yet, like schools across the rest of the state, MSD is facing budget cuts this year. Related: How Mississippi got an award for education.

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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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JANUARY 18, 2017

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. “How well we do in providing more resources for minority students is really the key to how well all of us will do,” Murdock said.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

More students turned to the program in the wake of the devastating 2008 economic crash. Young adults who have to borrow money to go to college are under water, in sharp contrast to their parents’ generation, according to a report by Young Invincibles, an advocacy and policy group.

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JUNE 17, 2018

In 2016, California had 33 racially identifiable white charters, Texas was home to 19 and Michigan, 14. In 2016, Cobb worked to push Lake Oconee to agree to accept a more equitable manner of determining funding for the charter school.) In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County.

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The effect is the same — forging partnerships with the city and local organizations to invest in the economic development of the community,” she said in a statement. He died in 2016. We focus on meaningful investments that provide local jobs and economic opportunity, along with sustainable community partnerships.”

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Voters banned it again in 1998, only reversing the latest prohibition in 2016. California has removed the official barriers to offering this type of instruction since 2016, and the state now champions bilingualism and biliteracy, encouraging all students to strive for both. Her home state could have kept pace with Texas. But it didnt.

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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. Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of the Consortium for School Networking, a technology advocacy group, calls the digital divide in the US “the civil rights issue” of our time.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In 2016 not a single child at “North,” as locals call it, tested proficient in math according to the state’s education department. Fuller launched his chief advocacy arm for school choice, the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, housed at Marquette University, more than two decades ago. The trade-off.

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MARCH 29, 2018

billion as of 2016 through a complicated financial instrument called an interest-rate swap. 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 Endowment returns were 12.2

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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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JUNE 24, 2018

Josiah Taft, 4, played at the water table in his public preschool classroom at P.S. 3 in Brooklyn in 2016. While existing economic segregation means that a universal preschool wouldn’t serve a perfect mix of lower- and upper-income families, it would be more mixed than the current system, which clusters children living in poverty.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2017

percent for the European Union, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , which tracks international economic trends. McNitt and Gottlieb, who sit at different points on the economic spectrum, agreed that more government assistance with the cost of high-quality child care would have helped them.

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JUNE 27, 2021

The 10-year moratorium on even partial reimbursements could create a backlog of more than a billion dollars’ worth of capital projects across state schools by 2025, according to a March analysis of Alaska’s K-12 capital spending by Bob Loeffler, a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research.

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The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance. Tourism provides an economic bedrock for the Havasupai economy, though many families rely on government assistance. Vides, the teacher, struggled with his decision to quit.

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As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. We’re lucky to have one candidate who has a track record like that,” said Kris Perry, head of the First Five Years Fund, an advocacy group that advises both Republican and Democratic politicians on early childhood policy.

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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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Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump by Andrea Silva , University of North Texas Trends in Latino Voting Behavior What factors explain the increasing support for Trump and other Republican candidates among Latino voters from 2016 to 2024?

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