2016 Advocacy Social Justice 
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. The 2016 Ghost Ship fire that claimed 36 lives occurred a few blocks from the Code Next lab.
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. It feels really good to say, ‘I believe in this and that,’” said Dawn Larson, a social justice and equity co-chair of the Green Lake PTA. “To Credit: Dawn Larson.
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 4, 2019
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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 16, 2016
Amal Abdi at her high school graduation in June, 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. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016. Photo: Hajira Dahir. Photo: Esteban Gil.
The Hechinger Report
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. My support for vouchers,” he said, “didn’t have a damn thing to do with free-market principles … it was a social justice issue to me.”. The trade-off.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump looks on as Betsy DeVos, his nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In Indiana, thanks to DeVos’ funding of advocacy organizations and her financial contributions to political campaigns, then-Gov. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 4, 2017
It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group. Related: Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice. Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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