The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. To help, district leaders turned to Daniel Joseph, a veteran educator and national consultant who has led the design of Parker-Varney’s competency system, and asked him to adapt it for the rest of the district’s K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

When Diamante Hare stepped onto Northeastern Illinois University’s campus in Chicago for the first time in 2018, he was gambling with thousands of dollars of grants, scholarships and loans — and his future. To an extent, yes, hold K-12 accountable, but now they’re your students. “To This story also appeared in NBC News.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. That same year, the school officially joined the NACA-inspired network as a K-6 charter school with a dual language immersion model.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. The retention rate for Mississippi third graders in 2018-19 was about 10 percent.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In June, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost funding for 1,000 pre-K slots due to an expiring federal grant. Under pressure to invest in education, Mayor Jim Strickland announced the city would commit $6 million toward pre-K funding, though that amount would not completely offset the lost federal funds.

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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 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. “We had to wake up at 5 o’clock in the morning because our school was far away. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

That plan identified preschool as an important first step to improve K-12 education. As a result, the number of high-quality preschool programs has increased, with a 32 percent increase between July 2018 and June 2019. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

March 2018. Within the state of Illinois, a wealthy district typically spends $3,400 more than a poor district, according to a February 2018 study by The Education Trust, a nonprofit group that conducts research and advocates for low-income students. Baker et al. How much does it cost to educate a child?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In 2018 Congress allocated federal funds to train schools on threat assessment. A few weeks after a school shooting in Maryland in March 2018, state legislators passed a law mandating threat assessment teams in schools. Advocacy demonstrating the harm threat assessments may pose to students with disabilities could be having an effect.

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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. But, I still want to be president, too.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. Here, a quote from a 2018 graduate. The fact is, offering students choices about their learning experience is difficult.

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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. She enrolled her daughter, Nevaeh, in pre-K at Greensboro Elementary School just as Lake Oconee Academy was getting off the ground.

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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. This was the technically correct response, because unless speech calls for imminent violence directed at a specific person (e.g.,

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act , or ESSA, also provides increased access to funding for physical education by including the subject in its definition of a “well-rounded education.”. “At Hillman, who is advising the U.S.

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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. As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. Students are doing as well as before the switch, according to Riley.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In comparison, young American voter registration is much lower and participation spiked in 2018 — when 28 percent voted , a record percentage — though it’s dipped since then. Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Phoenix Union received around $12 million from the first coronavirus stimulus bill, according to Gestson. White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December. billion for K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“We knew the pandemic put a huge strain on a system that was already strained, so this is just a continuous struggle that’s been made worse,” said Nina Perez, the early childhood national campaign director for MomsRising, a nonprofit advocacy group that focuses on supporting policies that help women, mothers and families.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Credit: Dawn Larson. Credit: Dawn Larson. Hampson said.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When Texas’ House Bill (HB) 25 went into effect earlier this year, banning transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, I invited teachers at my middle school to stop by my classroom to help with a project to reaffirm our school’s support for trans students. But I want them to live.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. Devanhi, 12, recently finished sixth grade at Jackson Middle School in the Guilford County district.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Under the “Don’t Say Gay” law, Florida teachers in grades 4-12 will need to ensure that instruction in sexual orientation and gender identity is age and developmentally appropriate, as defined by the state. I guess you have spoken to the same teachers who support sexualizing children in K-12 schools,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

To gain more insight into our experience, I reached out to my network of Palestinian American K-12 educators. My advocacy for Palestine is professional suicide,” Sawsan Jaber said. While every school is different, Palestinian teachers are often vilified, diminished or made unwelcome.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. Janine Menard works as a counselor at Sheely Farms Elementary, which enrolls about 750 students from pre-K through eighth grade in the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better. And although white and black students make up a similar proportion of Mississippi’s student population, white students were more than twice as likely to attend one of Mississippi’s 31 A-rated school districts this year, according to 2018-19 enrollment data.

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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

JULY 9, 2021

The board is currently reviewing the state’s K-12 health standards, which mention suicide prevention parenthetically. We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

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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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