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OCTOBER 7, 2024

SEE Learning is a K-12 curriculum developed through a collaboration between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Students engage in creative activities on the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center in San Antonio, Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Texas — By the end of the school year, the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center looked like a dreamscape of “DIY Outdoor Learning Spaces.” Photo: Bekah McNeel for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Efforts that seem to be working have had a common ingredient: close ties between colleges and local K-12 school districts. Rebecca Hines consented to lead its relaunch in 2017, but on her terms. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. Sign up for our newsletters.

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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. Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion under the 2017 budget. “We At the K-12 school, there are 26 or 27 students in one first-grade class, Eubanks said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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. 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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In California, Shelly Spiegel-Coleman is executive director of Californians Together, an advocacy organization focused on improving educational opportunities for students learning English. Hardy hopes that Massachusetts’ own nascent Seal of Biliteracy program will help her find more allies to push a new bill in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. While 64 percent of Lake Oconee eighth-graders passed the state’s eighth-grade math test in 2017, 9 percent of the other district students did.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Rethinking Citizen Competence in Democratic Theory and Practice Thursday, September 5, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Roundtable Participants : (Chair) Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine (Presenter) John S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states.

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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

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.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Northern Cass’s reforms rely on North Dakota’s 2017 decision to let districts apply for waivers from requirements such as hours of instruction. “I’d love to tell you we have every answer,” Steiner said, but “we’ve got a long way to go.”. While seat-time schooling is fiercely opposed by reformers, it is backed by state and federal law.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. percent between 2009 and 2017. As of 2017, 48 of 49 districts had a form of proficiency-based graduation requirements in place for the class of 2020, according to state officials. percent to 89.1

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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. The underlying fundamental problem is poverty, just like K-12 education,” he said. Photo: John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union. What they need, Thompson said, is more help.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). They’re a good experience and they challenge us,” Junior Marniga Lewis said. “We

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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. Leslie Boggs, president of the National PTA, blamed much of that evolution on the often-exhausting fights over K-12 funding within school districts and states. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. That was the case with Santiago’s son.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In one extreme case, a California district agreed to pay 12 percent interest on a $16.7 In a separate case, Kansas City-based George K. In a memo to the district superintendent, George K. When they get a bad deal, school districts can find themselves on the hook for unnecessarily high payments in a variety of ways.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

She resorted to an English major and returned to Holmes County in the summer of 2017 with her bachelor’s degree. A study from University of California, Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson suggests exposure to integrated schools among other reforms, such as high-quality pre-K and equitable school funding, can help disrupt the cycle of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. While dual-language programs often stop after elementary school, the bilingual advantage stretches through students K-12 years and into their working lives. The school opened a dual language program in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks. That’s been a reality the last few years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Public colleges couldn’t admit students without immigration documents and, even though, under federal law, K-12 schools are required to serve students regardless of citizenship status, the Alabama legislation also called for school districts to collect information on their students’ citizenship status. But even though most are U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2025

Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. Isidore and the opt-outs for parents because of how the justices ruled i n three cases between 2017 and 2022. In the most extreme scenario, they say, the rulings could lead to the dismantling of public education and essentially allow public schools to be Sunday schools.

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ED Surge

APRIL 28, 2025

Were really disappointed, particularly given that theres this focus on making sure kids are healthy, making America healthy, said Diane Pratt-Heavener with the School Nutrition Association, a 50,000-member advocacy group that supports K-12 school meal programs. Massachusetts is expecting a loss of $12 million due to the cuts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

In the review of the 32 textbooks, which are used in California, Florida, Oklahoma or Texas, we found that at least 12 included descriptions of climate change that were superficial or contained errors. Beatriz López taught seventh grade science in the Lake Travis Independent School District, in Austin, Texas, from 2008 to 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

For years, voters from all political parties have been telling pollsters at the First Five Years Fund, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on early learning, that they are in favor of more funding for early childhood education. Though she is intrigued by the findings, Cascio cautions that there are limitations to her research.

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