The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In March 2019, McBride finally succeeded in getting her daughter identified as having an emotional impairment and given an individualized education program, or IEP. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Even before the pandemic, far too many Americans were struggling to manage their student loan debt: At the start of 2020, one-quarter of Direct Loan borrowers were either behind on payments or in default, and over a million borrowers entered default in 2019 alone. Families cannot afford to wait.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

A 2019 Department of Education report found evidence that English learners suffered from these divides before the pandemic; the crisis has only made them more consequential. American schools are overwhelmingly English-only environments — and too often, this can make them hostile spaces for English learners and their families.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 19, 2025

That was in the fall of 2019. Welcoming policies and city-level advocacy like this are the focus of my current research agenda. “Welcoming policies and city-level advocacy like this are the focus of my current research agenda. When did you become a member of APSA, and what prompted you to join?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Hameed said the format lets teachers engage students in a more meaningful way, even when they have to connect over Zoom. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Mothers Gwyn Hainsworth, far left, Vernee Fletcher, Jamie Zimmerman, Katy Strange and Leticia Bazemore pose at Jefferson Park in Seattle during a June 2019 soccer scrimmage. Parents from the Green Lake and Rising Star elementary schools in Seattle meet for a spaghetti dinner in late 2019. It was never about the money,” she said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

At Northeastern Illinois, only 11 percent of Black students graduated within six years in 2019. In some states, the graduation rate gaps are particularly acute: At every four-year public college in Illinois and Missouri with data available, for example, there was a gap of at least 14 percentage points between white and Black students in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. Across the country, some state lawmakers have begun to respond to the demands of student activists and Native advocacy organizations. And it’s about acculturation,” she said. “It

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. In the 2019-20 year, the district spent about $175,000 on interpretation and translation services, she said; last school year, that figure was more than $450,000.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Please join Dr. Heather Johnson and me for one or both of our two Spring 2019 social media workshops for SEHD faculty and students! ]. They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact. Here’s my second one, which came out today. ].

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Generation Hope scholar alumna Lakeya and her two sons celebrating her graduation from Towson University in May 2019. At Generation Hope, we are building a policy and advocacy agenda driven by student parents all over the country that will prioritize removing financial barriers to college completion for Black parents.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

But at the end of 2019, an asthma-related hospital visit and the death of several extended family members sent Williams into a depression. Among first-time applicants to the Maricopa system, 27 percent fewer ended up enrolling than in fall of 2019. During high school, he took dual enrollment courses at the two-year College of Marin.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Liberals don’t dismiss civic knowledge, but many believe it’s equally important for students to learn the skills necessary to navigate the political process. Teachers, for their part, tend to side with the liberals. Related: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds.

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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

MAY 28, 2024

The program has been able to pay teachers more without passing the costs directly to parents, said the center’s advocacy manager, Adam Barragan-Smith. Comparing child care employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics between 2019 and 2023, Mathematica associated the program with an increase of 219 educators, or nearly 7 percent.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. The junior high had 1,200 student discipline referrals during the 2019-2020 school year, Cole-Ochoa says, which was cut short that March due to COVID-19 lockdowns.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. These relationships have been instrumental in sustaining my advocacy efforts; by engaging in these efforts, I strive to create an educational landscape where every student and educator feels valued and respected.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All told, according to National Education Policy Center data, more than 330,000 students attended virtual schools in 2019-20, roughly 60 percent of them at for-profits. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.). Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc., Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2020

Some HBCU advocacy organizations have launched emergency funds to help the institutions and the students they serve. In 2019 there were 101 HBCUs. Justin Draeger, president and CEO, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

In the 2018-2019 academic year, the university enrolled 6,763 undergraduate students, compared to 5,372 in the 2021-2022 academic year (the most recent year available from the National Center for Education Statistics). It has six campuses in Michigan along with its online program.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Around 60 percent of large school districts surveyed by the National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, increased pay for subs during the pandemic. Last fall, in the district, nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled, compared with 26 percent in fall 2019. Credit: Terra Fondriest for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

In early May 2019, Savannah graduated from Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. College leaders and faculty must continue to help students with disabilities develop the self-advocacy skills and self-determination they need to be successful.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. percent for the 2018-2019 school year (compared to a 25 percent chronically absent rate for California homeless students in general). Some people are convinced that homeless-only schools are a bad idea.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The number of undergraduates dropped by nearly 4 percent in the fall compared to the fall of 2019, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, because of families’ financial circumstances, dissatisfaction with online learning and other reasons. Fifteen U.S. Only 26 percent of working U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. Rajbhandari said he’s witnessed a big shift in the level of advocacy for schools and climate since he attended his first Sunrise event in 2019, a protest at the Idaho state capitol.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2022

Business leader associations and advocacy groups are also pushing for child care solutions. A 2019 ReadyNation study on the child care crisis found an annual economic cost of $57 billion in lost earnings, productivity and revenue as a result of the infant-and-toddler child care crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While some districts have prioritized the mental health of their students, Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, the director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists, said such districts are the exception. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are about 43,190 school social workers nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

But for grandparents raising grandchildren, that’s not possible, said Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. Clough and her granddaughter, Carter, make Christmas cookies in December 2019 Credit: Photo courtesy of Joanne Clough. Critical Condition.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. But despite its low performance and its students’ needs, O’Neal received $9,094 per student in 2019 in state and local funding compared to Centennial’s $10,559. At Ronald D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

In California, Child Care Providers United, which represents more than 40,000 home-based providers, won the right to collective bargaining in 2019 , and last year secured a second substantial reimbursement increase from the state for many home child care providers. Yet there have been union victories in recent years.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Attend the CSTA Annual Conference (July 7-10, 2019 in Phoenix, AZ). Nearly all of the options listed have professional development available. Advocate to bring CS to your school. Earn a credential or certificate.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

He received his doctorate in 2019 and now serves as vice president of programs for The Fortune Society, an education, service and advocacy organization focused on criminal justice and re-entry. Such advocacy has bipartisan support.

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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. Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL. Melissa Knapp, Harpeth Valley Elementary’s literacy coach, observes a first grade class.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

Roy Wilson, president of Wayne State University, Sandy Baruah, president and CEO of the Chamber and Brandy Johnson, advisor, Office of the Governor – Michigan announce a new initiative to remove college debts at gathering hosted by the Lumina Foundation in Detroit Michigan on April 30, 2019. Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began. So Kang is listening. That’s one of the two priorities weighing heavily on her mind.

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