The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. According to a March 2018 NBI report, there are 89 verified or “emerging” net-zero schools (emerging means under construction or too new to have been verified yet).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I Jayce was born in February 2018, and Hernandez spent as much time as possible studying for the May test instead. Hernandez ultimately passed the prerequisites for the R.N.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

These strategies range in impact and difficulty, and some have been more practiced in the children’s advocacy world than others. In 2018 alone, a diverse group of communities successfully passed measures to establish “children’s funds” in Jackson County, Missouri; San Francisco; Kent County, Michigan; and Alachua County, Florida.

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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. Our analysis focused on non-charter districts in the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

6, 2018, in front of Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash. 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 19, 2019

The number of students taking The College Board’s Advanced Placement tests in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish rose 68 percent from 2008 to 2018. Costel-Tudor Voica, a junior from Moldova majoring in economics, said that being in a class with native speakers was thrilling: “I can take my Chinese to the next level.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

He attributes the cut to budget concerns — IU Northwest was the only campus within Indiana University’s higher education system to see a decline in appropriations from FY 2017 to 2018. Anel Chavez, a recent graduate of Indiana University Northwest, picks up an application for the school’s business and economics graduate program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school In seven states, the rate of chronically absent kids doubled for the 2021-22 school year, from 2018-19, before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. “I I’ve wondered for 25 years why it is that we continue to use it.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Tucci, who will graduate in 2018. Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. I’ve actually been able to take 18 credits some semesters,” said Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

When we think about the amount of money and resources needed to navigate a state and federal economic crisis, the first package was not nearly enough,” he said. Teachers throughout Arizona, including this group in Phoenix, staged a walkout strike in 2018 in support of better wages and state funding for schools. Schools in the U.S.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They significantly expanded the article on Megan Hunt , the first openly LGBTQ+ person to be elected to the Nebraska legislature in 2018. 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

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of the Consortium for School Networking, a technology advocacy group, calls the digital divide in the US “the civil rights issue” of our time.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

And an estimated 28 percent of families need child care but can’t access it, a gap that prevents some parents from working and bolstering the economic well-being of their families. Community Spirit Trumps Anyone’s Political Agenda’ The first of the collaboratives launched in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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. It’s a strategy Fuller views as a necessary contradiction, but that others say has undermined his credibility.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better. Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. When she toured Holmes Central High School’s virtual pilot AP Physics program, in the fall of 2018, she advocated for “freedom and flexibility”— not additional spending.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Civic Learning on Campus: Bringing Political Science In Mini-Conference II: Political Science’s Role in the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap Friday, September 6, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Roundtable Participants : (Chair) Shawn Paul Healy, State Policy and Advocacy (Presenter) Paul O. Trojahn et al.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Most involve individual school districts teaming up with nearby colleges and universities and use public money, private contributions or a combination of support, and with varying income and academic requirements, the advocacy organization College Promise says. Martha Kanter, former U.S. Tennessee Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

“Only very wealthy people can afford current decent care and education [for young children],” said Richard Brandon, a political scientist recently retired from the University of Washington and co-author of a 2018 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report on financing early education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

The 10-year moratorium on even partial reimbursements could create a backlog of more than a billion dollars’ worth of capital projects across state schools by 2025, according to a March analysis of Alaska’s K-12 capital spending by Bob Loeffler, a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. Broken system: Child care subsidies ensure low quality, limit access States had until 2018 to come into compliance.

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