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But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. percent or higher in suburban, town, and rural districts,” according to a 2017 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

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Across the country, some state lawmakers have begun to respond to the demands of student activists and Native advocacy organizations. California’s 2018 law followed on the heels of similar legislation in Montana, which in 2017 became the first state in the nation to protect Native students’ right to wear regalia.

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Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example. Caroline Condren, a 2013 English BA recipient from Colorado College, works as a senior development and communications manager at a documentary film company that melds content production and social advocacy.

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In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. For my students, leading this PD session and experiencing a shift in the traditional power dynamic opened up a new sense of advocacy possibilities.

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For the 2017-18 academic season, for example, 71 percent of Common App users who did not submit an application through the platform still attended college within the next academic year, according to the analysis. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At

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JULY 15, 2019

In contrast, while nearly one in five college students has some type of disability, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, the median percentage across all institutions of undergraduate students formally registered as having a disability was only 6 percent in 2017. Related: Twice exceptional, doubly disadvantaged?

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JULY 18, 2017

“We think that’s the hardest work left,” said Brennan McMahon Parton, director of policy and advocacy at the Data Quality Campaign. “We The new report , “Time to Act 2017: Put Data in the Hands of People,” catalogs how the evolving use of data has influenced policy and teaching practices over the last 10 years.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

It just goes against everything we know about child development and what’s best for children,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. They are more likely to graduate from high school and are less likely to be held back.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

worked in retail and restaurants for years before starting a steamfitter apprenticeship in 2017. Lupe Trejo entered a steamfitter apprenticeship in 2017. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We Lupe Trejo has spent much of the pandemic counting herself fortunate. Trejo, a mother of six who lives near Washington, D.C.,

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APRIL 7, 2023

From 2017 to 2019 , Mississippi had the highest jump in fourth grade reading scores in the nation. Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL. Melissa Knapp, Harpeth Valley Elementary’s literacy coach, observes a first grade class.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

The flurry of new state laws over the past five years is in large part the result of pressure from Decoding Dyslexia, a parent advocacy group with chapters in all 50 states. They pushed a new bill in 2017 that required all students to be screened for dyslexia at the end of kindergarten and first grade.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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APRIL 24, 2020

Among new students who started in 2017 and 2018, 31 percent applied for financial assistance less than a month before classes began and 14 percent applied after classes had started. Some HBCU advocacy organizations have launched emergency funds to help the institutions and the students they serve.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

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APRIL 10, 2018

Leila Schochet, research and advocacy manager for Early Childhood Policy at the Center for American Progress, said Head Start is not only important for families, it’s also critical for rural economies. A 2017 study found the children of people who attended preschool are better off than their peers whose parents did not attend preschool.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. In 2017, she co-authored a report that found some of the richest PTAs collected nearly $2,000 per student. Credit: Dawn Larson. In 2013-14, average per-pupil spending on public education in the U.S.

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Students who obtain a two-year associate’s degree typically complete a whopping 22 excess credits, according to a July 2017 report by Complete College America , an advocacy group that tracks these figures. That’s three-quarters of an entire academic year on top of the two-year program.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Forty-five percent of public schools nationwide had at least one SRO in the 2017-18 school year. As our country reckons with a long and continued history of systemic racism, and communities take to the streets to protest police brutality and reinforce that Black Lives Matter, we must consider the many paths that have led us here.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever The stakes of such discipline playing out in schools across the country “are fairly enormous,” said Sara Zier from TeamChild, a youth advocacy organization in Washington State that also provides legal services.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. There was some concern that school districts could mistakenly be reclassified as 100 percent low income overnight. Some school buildings don’t have many poor kids in them. percentage points — from 51.2

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APRIL 23, 2018

However, in 2017, children who attended Head Start in Mississippi scored lower on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment than children who attended public or private pre-K, a licensed childcare center, a family day care center, or stayed at home until kindergarten.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

The data was from the 2018-19 academic year, with the exception of Nevada, which has released only the data from 2017-18. Credit: Courtesy of Corey Dixon/2017. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. Who could argue that it’s not?”

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MARCH 26, 2019

Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” found a report from the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools.

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JULY 14, 2020

One family, who declined to be interviewed for this piece, moved to Boston from Puerto Rico in 2017 after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, López said. At Sarah Greenwood, school leaders have resisted López’s advocacy for years. Cassellius is asking principals to make these changes, however—not ordering them to do so.

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JUNE 4, 2019

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

We no longer have the luxury of going to college for college’s sake,” said Yolanda Spiva, president of the advocacy organization Complete College America. More than half of all bachelor’s degree-seeking students who finished college in 2017 enrolled in at least one course during the summer , earning an average of 9.2

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. Officials would not say whether the state would again fail to match and thus lose federal funds in 2017. More advocacy.”.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. It sounds complicated because it is. Related: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating. There are several reasons for this, Walsh said.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The gap is often stark: In 18 states, graduation rates for students who experienced homelessness lagged more than 20 percentage points behind the overall rate in both 2017 and 2018. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples. The academic cost is not equally shared.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Learn a simple advocacy technique that gets members of the community involved in a relevant legislative/policymaking process. Objectives: Change the qualifications for TOPS. Students will: Practice how to convince someone using a letter. Understand how to qualify for a TOPS scholarship. Photo: Cheryl Gerber.

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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. STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Government Accountability Office found in the most recent national study of this problem, in 2017 — requiring them to retake courses and increasing the amount of time and money spent to get degrees. They lose, on average, more than 40 percent of the credits they’ve already earned and paid for , the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to the state education department’s report card, the percentages of its middle schoolers meeting or exceeding grade-level expectations was lower, and in some cases far lower, than the South Carolina statewide averages in English, math, science and social studies in both the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years. (No

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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JANUARY 26, 2019

It’s help teachers need: In 2016 , about 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once, and at least 17,000 were expelled, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based liberal research and advocacy institute, which arrived at the estimate based on data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health.

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APRIL 29, 2022

Like their students, educators, staff and administrators have also experienced loss, depression and anxiety in the pandemic and that can affect how they do their jobs, said Christy McCoy, president of the School Social Work Association of America, an advocacy group for school social workers. “A

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