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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. Fewer students equal less revenue for community colleges, which could lead to cuts at the very institutions so many depend upon as a first step toward economic mobility. It’s just too much.”.

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MARCH 2, 2023

The education provisions of the law’s definition of homeless — “individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence” — encompasses unaccompanied and unsheltered youth, students in homeless shelters, kids living at a hotel or motel and children staying with friends or family due to economic hardship.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The economic churn triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic “has increased the demand” for courses that can help people quickly learn what they need to find work, Paliwal said. universities in all entered into partnerships with bootcamps between 2019 and the third quarter of last year to offer coding, the education research firm Holon IQ reports.

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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. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. Particularly for states like West Virginia, a state with one of the highest poverty ratings and lowest economic opportunity rating.

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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. However, the district did not provide any special education services.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Another net-zero elementary school, also designed by VMDO, is to open in 2019. Starting in 2019, the plan is for all Discovery students to do sustainability audits, not just the Eco-Action club.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The challenges of this rapid expansion strategy were laid bare this summer, when Chip Paucek, chief executive officer of 2U, told investors on a call that the company would slow down its rate of launches after 2019 to “support our path to profitability.”.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

More students turned to the program in the wake of the devastating 2008 economic crash. Young adults who have to borrow money to go to college are under water, in sharp contrast to their parents’ generation, according to a report by Young Invincibles, an advocacy and policy group.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

This story was originally produced in 2019 by our publication partner, the CT Mirror , and is reprinted with permission. Toni Harp, who is now [in 2019] the mayor of New Haven. “He Housing insecurity, hunger, you know, economic instability,” he said. “So FROM OUR PARTNER. The other co-chair was then-Sen.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Worse, four in five of these maternal deaths —based on a review of those between 2017 and 2019—were preventable. Advocates argue that this will help to decouple institutional racial bias from life outcomes for children, such as their long-term physical health, economic status and educational success. “So

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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. Miller’s budget for the 2019-20 school year was around $35 million, and Greene County Schools received $1.4 This anticipated next stimulus package is going to be vital.

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MAY 2, 2022

Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. I didn’t have time to exercise. I didn’t have time to cook.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. In Austin, 53 percent of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren at a Warren Town Hall event at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa on Sunday, October 20, 2019. Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Last week, Democratic presidential candidate Sen.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 But in the coming decades, politicians of both parties would respond to economic downturns by cutting higher education funding, causing tuition to rise. Lumina is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.).

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This roundtable will build upon the recent contributions in this idiom of Chambers (2019), Farrell et al (2022), Niemeyer et al (2023), and Minozzi et al (2023), with participants from the authors of all these papers. The final two papers focus on the equity implications of municipal boundaries and political fragmentation in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. In 2019, the state education department launched teacher residency programs in four districts, two of which are nearly all black and in which more than two thirds of students qualify for free lunch.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Outside of her education initiatives, Prentiss addressed economic issues after the Republican-led senate refused to put a bill on the floor to raise the minimum wage. September, 2019. We need more legislators who believe in public schools and want to work to improve schools. Photo by Deborah Menkart.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fellowship of Reconciliation Continuing to Break the Silence: Learning and Reflection on Vietnam, Palestine, and Beyond A side-by-side reading of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” speech and Michelle Alexander’s 2019 op-ed “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

In fiscal year 2019, Congress appropriated $160 million to the Department of Labor to expand apprenticeship programs under the National Apprenticeship Act. Many Americans believe that attending a traditional four-year college is critical to obtaining economic success. Susan Davis (D-Calif.)

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JUNE 17, 2021

immigration quagmire, one of Kishore Khandavalli’s top managers decided in late 2019 to move home to India. The United States ranks 36th out of 79 countries and regions in how its 15-year-olds score on international tests in math administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Stuck in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

Now it’s 2019, and after federal and state budget cuts, spiraling tuition, political distraction and increasing public skepticism about the value of a higher education, the nation is far behind schedule in realizing this goal. The consequences are a slowdown of economic and social progress.

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JULY 1, 2019

Agreeing with the premise of a recent Atlantic article that argued inequality in our country won’t be eradicated by reforming schools, Obama went on to state that “fixing educational inequality requires doing more to address the broader, systemic sources of economic inequality.”. Also in May, presidential hopeful Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

In fact, in 2019 and 2020 some or all funds to reimburse municipalities for past projects were vetoed by Gov. In Southwest Alaska, the Yup’ik village of Newtok began relocating to a new village called Mertarvik in 2019 to escape the eroding force of the Ninglick River. billion and $5.5 billion and $2.9 Mike Dunleavy, a former educator.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Then, when Democrats won control of the Virginia state legislature in 2019, gun rights activism soared across the state. This should come as no surprise: The National Rifle Association spends about US$3 million annually on direct gun rights lobbying that supports pro-gun political advocacy.

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