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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. Mary Nadeau, principal of Nokomis High School in Newport, poses for a photo in a hallway of the school on Friday, June 2, 2017. Elderkin says she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests.

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APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

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,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

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. The academic cost is not equally shared.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. The school district of Horry County, South Carolina, which counts the majority of its 43,800 students as impoverished, opened three net-zero schools in 2017, one in 2018 and has one more under construction.

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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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OCTOBER 12, 2021

They also created the entry for the 2017 Lincoln Nebraska Women’s March , demonstrating how the Wikipedia assignment can help students to connect to their local identities. They created the article for Claudette White , Chief Judge of the Quechan and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Courts from 2006-2020 and 2018-2020, respectively.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

More students turned to the program in the wake of the devastating 2008 economic crash. One-third of Black borrowers in repayment in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree were using these payment plans – a much higher rate than those of other borrowers, according to a report from the Center for American Progress. percent in 2010.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Worse, four in five of these maternal deaths —based on a review of those between 2017 and 2019—were preventable. Advocates argue that this will help to decouple institutional racial bias from life outcomes for children, such as their long-term physical health, economic status and educational success. “So

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ED Surge

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Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. I didn’t have time to exercise. I didn’t have time to cook.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, says that, in some parts of the country, organizations that oversee charters have started to take a more active role in ensuring that the schools enroll a diverse student body.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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. We focus on meaningful investments that provide local jobs and economic opportunity, along with sustainable community partnerships.”

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. By making the connection between educational adequacy and equity, Warren’s policy breaks from the choice-driven reform movement that ignores the economic context in which children, families and schools reside.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2016

Without these students, the nation can’t meet its goal of increasing the proportion of the population with degrees , a measure by which several economic rivals now have an advantage. But such reforms are given long odds even by the people who support them. It died without being taken up in the Senate.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

While policymakers didnt catch on right away, well-off and well-educated white parents did, seeing the economic benefits of bilingualism for their children very clearly. The school opened a dual language program in 2017. Last year, 85% of the students enrolled were fluent English speakers, according to program director Nancy Hong.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

For-profit institutions have long devoted large sums to advertising, spending almost $400 per student on it in 2017, according to research from the Brookings Institution. This trend concerns many student-protection advocacy groups, which point out that the colleges that stand to gain are among those with the most troubling records.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

But when she compared the end-of-year test scores of low-income children who had attended preschool to those who hadn’t, she found that low-income preschoolers who had attended preschool classes with peers from other economic strata performed the best.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in the coming decades, politicians of both parties would respond to economic downturns by cutting higher education funding, causing tuition to rise. In response, in 2017, California’s community colleges began putting less-well-prepared students into credit-bearing introductory courses with extra tutoring.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In 2017 the school received more than $462,000 in contributions, according to IRS filings. To raise those funds Fuller often relies on a network of conservative school choice allies he has cultivated over the years, despite their support for social and economic policies that contribute to black impoverishment. The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. She resorted to an English major and returned to Holmes County in the summer of 2017 with her bachelor’s degree. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

This roundtable discussion builds upon research published in the APSA edited volume Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines (2017) and promises to serve as a unifying effort to confront the democratic challenges our campuses and country likely will face this election. Trojahn et al.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. In 2017, the city made a $750,000 early childhood investment.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Average public spending on child care among the comparatively wealthy Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations is $16,000 a year per child. averaged $10,600 a year in 2021, according to an analysis by the advocacy organization Child Care Aware. A robust, reliable care system requires investment.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice’s “ Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement.” Six episodes of the podcast based on Khalidi’s book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 “Black Feminist Writers and Palestine” with Clarissa Brooks, Angela Y.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

But the talent gap is closing, as international economic competitors capitalize on America’s anti-immigration turn, said Gaurav Khanna, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California San Diego who studies high-skill migration. students, meanwhile, continue to fall behind in math and engineering.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

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. The economic incentive for middle-class American parents to send their child to a free public preschool is clear. (Per

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

And the United States remains stubbornly in 13th place in the world in the proportion of its 25- to 34-year-olds with degrees , according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, behind South Korea, Canada, Japan, Russia, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway and other countries.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In 2017, six Havasupai families sued the federal government, alleging that the Bureau of Indian Education, which operates Havasupai Elementary and is housed within the Interior Department, deprived their children of their federal right to an education. The BIE and DOI, in June 2017, formally petitioned the U.S. and his co-plaintiffs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

Agreeing with the premise of a recent Atlantic article that argued inequality in our country won’t be eradicated by reforming schools, Obama went on to state that “fixing educational inequality requires doing more to address the broader, systemic sources of economic inequality.”.

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