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MAY 29, 2020

Some low-income prospective students now are working to help their families, said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America; others are seeing record unemployment rates and wondering whether there will be any jobs for them, even with degrees. “It’s going to affect them for a really long time.”.

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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. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. 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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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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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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JULY 16, 2018

Baray, a former teacher and principal in the Austin schools, has also taught at Texas State University, where she conducted extensive research on educational leadership, community involvement, and school improvement. In 2018, only 62 percent of district third graders passed the state reading tests, up from 55 percent in 2017.

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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.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Partly because of these and related efforts, the number of teachers from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups more than doubled over the last 30 years—from about 327,000 in the late 1980s to 810,000 in the 2017-18 school year. s worry, expressed shortly before his death, that he had integrated Black Americans “into a burning house.”

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APRIL 29, 2022

Leadership over time has invested and really understood the impact around trauma,” Tote-Freeman said. The district also has a crisis prevention team made up of a psychotherapist, clinical social workers and a licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner who can assess, evaluate and treat students.

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APRIL 21, 2017

San Diego, California, USA; February 28, 2017 San Diego State University has a solid track record for graduate its veteran students. The findings “demonstrate more can be done to support the needs of these non-traditional students,” said Barrett Bogue, spokesman for the advocacy organization Student Veterans of America.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The firms will sponsor school board or leadership conferences and take school leaders out to dinner. We didn’t see any upside to that at all,” said Dirk Burke, executive director of the Missouri Association of Counties, an advocacy group that represents county governments. Some firms have gotten in trouble for going even further.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

She resorted to an English major and returned to Holmes County in the summer of 2017 with her bachelor’s degree. The nonprofit advocacy group EdBuild’s recommendations to increase funding for students who are impoverished, have a disability or are learning English “made sense,” Wright added. “It

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AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Whenever we need something, we simply ask for it and they do their best to get it for us,” Martínez said of his district’s leadership. And even if they can’t, they find alternatives that we can use.”

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. That last rejection in spring 2017 was the last straw for Thorne. Why didn’t you tell us?

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MAY 23, 2020

Beatriz López taught seventh grade science in the Lake Travis Independent School District, in Austin, Texas, from 2008 to 2017. López, the former middle school teacher in Austin, Texas, moved back to Puerto Rico, where she grew up, in August 2017. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López. It’s very common to face backlash in the classroom.”.

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JUNE 12, 2019

But after attending an advocacy event in Washington two years later, and hearing that the U.S. In July 2017, he started a campaign called Schools for Climate Action. Messina said the delegates didn’t want a resolution to distract from advocacy for disaster relief and called climate change “a political issue.”.

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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. (In The BIE and DOI, in June 2017, formally petitioned the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But the National Charter Collaborative, a nonprofit designed to create and support opportunities for charter school leaders of color, has to date identified more than 400 single-site schools in which people of color either lead the school and/or make up at least 30 percent of the board and leadership teams, according to CEO Kim Smith.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Despite these challenges, the resilience of the Latino electorate is evident through their continued advocacy for rights and representation, even in the face of political hurdles. The political landscape for Latinos has historically been shaped by external factors such as nativist movements , which promote anti-Latino policies.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donald Trump’s administration was known for its advocacy of school choice, but that wasn’t something he talked much about on the campaign trail in 2015 or 2016; it only came into focus with his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education. Anything is possible.

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