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2016 Advocacy Government 
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 4, 2016
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. She had spent 12 years as a senior education advocate at the Disability Law & Advocacy Center of Tennessee, advising other parents on how to get through the system.
111 
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 25, 2021
Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. In 2016, the federal Department of Education, under Secretary Arne Duncan, released guidance that addressed the issue of shortened school days.
145 
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 15, 2024
Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. Even before the FAFSA fiasco, that’s been happening.
142 
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 2, 2023
In response to rising numbers of homeless youth here, state legislators passed a bill in 2016 that freed up money to enable schools to identify more students as homeless and get them into stable housing — even if they aren’t viewed as homeless by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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.
143 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017).
115 
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. Rather than try to understand why parents might opt out of state testing, the federal government simply threatened states that high opt-out rates could affect their federal funding. Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda.
111 
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers. But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. Walker supported moving people from government assistance to work. The situation is most severe in urban centers.
111 
The Hechinger Report
JULY 16, 2019
His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Source: IPEDS 2016-17.
108 
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.
104 
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 14, 2021
Rita Green, the Washington state education chair for the NAACP, volunteered on the parent-teacher group at Rainier Beach High from 2007 to 2016. Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Credit: Dawn Larson.
145 
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.
136 
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
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.
123 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
As a result of this new attitude, at least 14 state legislatures considered new laws in 2016 that would increase the amount of physical education or recess schools are required to offer or raise the bar for qualifications for physical education teachers, according to a 2016 report by the Society for Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE).
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2022
The federal government provided billions of dollars to help schools recover from Covid, and some tapped that money for temporary stipends to attract new substitutes. 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.
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 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 So have state employee pension obligations.
107 The Hechinger Report
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. The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6
110 The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 31, 2019
In September 2016, that all changed abruptly. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly. Smith couldn’t afford a curriculum, which can cost thousands of dollars. Her teachers did not have enough training. And classrooms needed more books and educational materials.
78 
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 12, 2022
In 2016 Purdue University announced an income-share agreement program as a new guinea pig experiment in which students could get money for college in exchange for a share of their future earnings. There’s another reason for Back a Boiler’s pause: clampdowns by the federal government on certain schools that offer ISAs.
91 
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. 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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.
111 
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. Is this actually what we want?’”.
90 
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials. 47 percent of graduates at Meadowbrook High School in rural Ohio enrolled in associate or bachelor’s degree programs in 2016, up from 28 percent in 2013.
94 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
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.
111 
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.
106 
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.
92 
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.”.
75 The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 18, 2017
Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. 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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.
72 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 16, 2024
Massachusetts has seen nine nonprofit colleges close or merge since 2016, giving it the rather dubious honor of being first in the nation for nonprofit college closings. The federal government is a second line of defense. A lot of colleges are closing around here, and in other parts of the country, hit hard by an enrollment decline.
96 
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 7, 2020
But in the legislation’s almost 50-year history, the federal government has never fulfilled its promise to pay 40 percent of the average cost of educating students with disabilities. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. And this gives us a chance to rethink that.”
145 
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
August 9, 2016, was a good day for Phil Heasley, the CEO of a financial services company in Florida. August 22, 2016, was a bad day for Phil Heasley. His advocacy for the polygraph backfired when he testified in defense of James Frye , a Black man who had recanted a murder confession.
98 The Hechinger Report
JUNE 17, 2018
In 2016, California had 33 racially identifiable white charters, Texas was home to 19 and Michigan, 14. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. In 2016, Cobb worked to push Lake Oconee to agree to accept a more equitable manner of determining funding for the charter school.) Board of Education decision.
112 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Beginning in 2016, King, an entomologist, sat on a Hawaii child care working group in the legislature and advocated for about a dozen regulation bills. Cynthia King reads to her son Dexter Muir at their home in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2016. The last year it reported was 2016, making it the only state with a reporting gap that wide.
107 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 17, 2024
I’ll get back to you,’ ” said Marjorie Sims, managing director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute, one of a growing number of research, policy and advocacy organizations focusing on student-parents. “Ask community college presidents what percentage of their students are parents, and they’ll say, ‘That’s a really good question.
133 
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
But they are often contentious, and the seven other Ivy League universities pay some property taxes on those buildings or voluntarily pay millions of dollars every year to their local governments and school districts. He died in 2016. which had property tax savings of $145 million this year. After then-Gov.
138 The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 1, 2018
Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” Government programs have also freed up some financial support. The Seita program continues to try to close the gaps between campus and government resources.
111 
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The first hint that my 6-month-old may not have been receiving high-quality care came in fall of 2016, when I arrived early to pick him up from his child care program in Manhattan. said Reelitz, a mother of three in Hawaii who works in public policy and advocacy. It gave me pause, but I told myself that this was probably just a blip.
122 
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
“I think we all sometimes want to crave a benevolent dictatorship, like Singapore, where they're generally doing good stuff for the people, and it's all orderly, and no one's yelling at each other and there's a high degree of trust in the government,” Khan says. After the 2016 election, Jefferson started to become more politically aware.
124 
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.
136 The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 21, 2017
School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. 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. The measure failed.
96 
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.
99 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 24, 2024
Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. She now serves as the policy and advocacy director for SIECUS, a national nonprofit advocating for sex education.
104 
The Hechinger Report
JULY 9, 2021
We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He said he usually doesn’t handle that many evaluations over the course of an entire school year.
131 
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 25, 2021
Ashley Harrington, federal advocacy director, Center for Responsible Lending. When students borrow directly from a college, they aren’t protected by the same government safeguards they would have if they took out federal loans. “The We’re particularly worried that we’ll see more of this as the economy gets worse.”. Hidden Debt Trap.
127 
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 6, 2022
Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020. She said it took about two years to fully implement, but that the school dynamics changed “greatly” from the 2016-17 school year to 2018-19. Advocates wonder why the federal government hasn’t stepped in to quash the practice entirely.
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