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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

From 2017 to 2019 , Mississippi had the highest jump in fourth grade reading scores in the nation. Most governments are doing things in those areas, but what they’re doing is insufficient to be a strong enough intervention to have an effect on the rates at which students learn,” Reville said. “If Because I email, I call.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Ultimately, Wilson and Boggs said, it is the position of the National PTA that all necessary equipment and staffing at public schools should be paid for with government funds. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. Officials would not say whether the state would again fail to match and thus lose federal funds in 2017. More advocacy.”. More calls.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. Yet only half of these eligible schools in Missouri chose to participate because the federal government doesn’t reimburse for the full cost of the meals until more than 62.5 percentage points — from 51.2

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

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. Taxpayers incur additional costs because 60 percent of community college budgets are subsidized by state and local governments.

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

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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

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. District administrators are committed, as is the school board, and even the county government has embarked on an equity mission for the broader community.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Those proportions are expected to rise as a result of the disruptions caused by the coronavirus.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. That’s been a reality the last few years.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Lori Raineri, president of the Sacramento-based independent public consulting company Government Financial Strategies, says she frequently hears from school district leaders who relied on relationships, referrals or marketing to choose their financial team but lack the quantitative expertise to evaluate the advice they get.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. Not only do advisers, tutors, career counselors and coaches reach out; even the student government is alerted, said Liz Rainey, executive director of student success.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. They complained that such a requirement amounted to government interference in their affairs. Related: Colleges fight attempts to stop them from withholding transcripts over unpaid bills.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Moises Urena a SUNY student who grew up homeless lobbies for increased state aid during a visit to the Capitol Wednesday March 8, 2017 in Albany, NY. Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses. Photo: John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union. He made College Summit the school’s coolest club.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In May 2017, my research assistant Dana Burton and I sat through a nine-day trial at the US District Court in Baltimore, watching Phil Heasley challenge the validity of the polygraph test he had failed so as to reclaim the $2.8 On June 14, 2017, Justice Bennett released his 52-page judgment in the case of White Marlin Open, Inc.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

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

APRIL 8, 2021

Having just turned 12 in the fall of 2017, Alan bubbled over with excitement ahead of his first rally at Deming Intermediate School in Deming, New Mexico, a small city near the Mexican border. In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B.

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MPSA

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Wiley Kaikou Muir Act passed in 2017. Neither the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services nor the Government Accountability Office have audited the states to ensure they were following the reporting provisions, both offices confirmed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. The pervasiveness of advocacy writing helped usher in a “post-truth” era, where people consumed copious amounts of narrative over fact.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

One Alabama town is trying to change that He didn’t have funds for a new soccer field, so he had the football field re-turfed, and students began playing in 2017. Many of Russellville’s Hispanic students had lobbied for a soccer program, which Grimes put in place in 2017. Related: English language teachers are scarce.

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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. million since 2017 on firms that lobby city and state officials.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The federal government has played a role in the growth of these charters by granting charter startup grants to schools without considering whether they will lead to increased segregation. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Internal government documents, watchdog reports and interviews with veterans’ policy advocates, government staffers and other officials suggest that little has been done to crack down on colleges accused of predatory behavior. The VA’s Office of Inspector General has estimated that, if oversight is not ramped up significantly, $2.3

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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.” Edward Lara started as a campus coach in July of 2017 and works with about 22 students. Government programs have also freed up some financial support.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

That is why most states and the federal government choose to spend taxpayer dollars on “targeted” preschool programs open only to low-income families. It was first published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2017 and updated in December. The benefits for higher income children are less pronounced.

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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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Diane Ravitch

MAY 3, 2023

Apparently, the Republicans who control state government want to keep students in the dark about getting involved in civic action. But Texas is the only one nationwide to suppress students’ interactions with elected officials in class projects, according to researchers at the free expression advocacy group Pen America.

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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.

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