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A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA. Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. Home to the state’s largest school district, with nearly 60 percent of students considered economically disadvantaged, Manchester has consistently performed well below average on state achievement tests.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

A 2020 high school graduate from Marin City, California, Williams had entered an after-school college prep program, Bridge the Gap, when he was in third grade. Angel Vasquez, 2020 high school graduate from Providence, Rhode Island, of his family. “I Kamarree Williams had been on a path to college since before he learned long division.

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MAY 15, 2023

Already down by 22 percent between 2010 and 2020, or by more than 650,000 students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, it has fallen by another 7 percent since then, more recent figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show. We’re going backwards.” That’s down from 66 percent in 2010.

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MAY 9, 2024

The suit was brought against La’ James International College in 2020 following a Hechinger Report investigation into cosmetology schools in Iowa. It will also discharge debts those students owed to the school and make changes in how it communicates about financial aid.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. percent of third graders held back or the more than 12,000 fourth graders who could be held back this spring.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

The Los Angeles Unified School District reported a 14 percent drop in kindergarten enrollment for the 2020–21 school year, a loss of nearly 6,000 students. In Virginia, where enrollment fell by 13 percent , researchers found equal declines among families of different socio-economic status.

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MARCH 6, 2022

A concerted campuswide campaign that includes interventions like the one that rescued Dickinson has since more than doubled that proportion, to nearly half in 2020, the last year for which the figure is available. Credit: Saul Martinez for The Hechinger Report. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s also the only way we are going to reach an actual inclusive economic recovery.”. Meanwhile, construction was one of just two industries in which the number of women workers increased since February 2020, she said. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We We are still really struggling with the retention numbers.”.

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Lozada, who is majoring in political science and minoring in economics, initially thought she’d be a lawyer, but she is now set on becoming an elected official. The latest 2020 results from more than 195,000 students showed rates of basic needs insecurity increased among the general population, and intention to enroll in college dropped. “We

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s longtime partner, who was father to her children, died of a heart attack in May 2020 as COVID gripped the country. Tameka is her middle name.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Black and Hispanic students and students living in poverty were most likely to have to go without substitutes, according to a 2020 study from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. Covid made a bad situation worse. Some 95 percent of district leaders reported in a recent survey that the pandemic caused a shortage of substitute teachers.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Yet, nationwide, there was just one school psychologist for every 1,127 K-12 students in 2020-21, a ratio well below the 500 students to one psychologist recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists. The shortages of school social workers and counselors are just as bad. I’m open to seeing where the wind takes me,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. As a result, Lenoir-Rhyne was among the schools receiving the highest mark in 2020 in NCTQ’s rating system for teacher prep programs in early reading.

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JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. About three-quarters of Colorado jobs will require some education beyond high school by 2020, Baer said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

From 2017-18 to 2021-22, districts with more economically disadvantaged students and Black and Latino students gave out more such suspensions per capita than their more affluent, whiter counterparts. Halfway through Martinez’s suspension, in March 2020, Brentwood, like all school districts in the nation, went virtual because of the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

When classrooms closed in March 2020, Negrón in some ways felt relieved her two sons were home in Springfield. Related: PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says For people who’ve long studied chronic absenteeism, the post-COVID era feels different.

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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. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

That lack of communication and difference in management strategies is evident on other state trust lands on the reservation: One logged state parcel is adjacent to a sensitive elk calving ground, while another parcel, logged in 2020, sits atop a ridgeline and impacts multiple streams with bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout.

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I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. There are millions of FFN providers. With Jessica, I would ask her to color in the lines.

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JUNE 10, 2016

There’s an economic imperative for them to do this,” Ebdon said in the library-quiet headquarters of the Office for Fair Access in London’s Chancery Lane legal district. There’s an economic imperative for them to do this.”. That’s up from six times more likely in 1970. Even the highest-income U.S. Men in the U.K.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The first, passed in March of 2020, provided around $13.2 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. In November 2020, the state passed Proposition 208 to put a 3.5 billion for K-12 education. Schools in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Optimistically, the report said that if the recommendations were followed, they would help close the achievement gap by 2020. Housing insecurity, hunger, you know, economic instability,” he said. “So You know when we talk about preparing students for the jobs of the future, it’s critical thinking, it’s self-advocacy.

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

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While policymakers didnt catch on right away, well-off and well-educated white parents did, seeing the economic benefits of bilingualism for their children very clearly. Texas, Illinois and New York have similar laws, but instead of requiring bilingual programs in response to parent advocacy, they do so based solely on enrollment.

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JUNE 17, 2020

This trend concerns many student-protection advocacy groups, which point out that the colleges that stand to gain are among those with the most troubling records. In times of economic downturn, that’s when the for-profit colleges start to thrive” as people out of work turn to education, she said. s net income of $2.4

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

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

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DECEMBER 15, 2024

But for years after, the quest for a voucher would interfere with her quest for economic stability. Many parents are stuck, said Jennifer Greppi, parent policy director at Parent Voices California, an advocacy organization. In early 2020, unemployed, Funes learned that she qualified for a subsidy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

To make it through coronavirus-era closures and the economic downturn, providers like Beaver say they need help, fast. The economics are fragile in good times. The economics are fragile in good times,” she said. When a crisis like this hits, it is devastating to the child care field.” Everyone else pays their own way.

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JUNE 27, 2021

In December 2020, the high school gym in Homer, about 170 miles southwest of Seward, was closed for weeks, “because it was raining in the building,” Lyon said. More than half the country’s public school districts need to update or replace multiple building systems or features, according to a 2020 estimate by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

Louis, Missouri “I came from a pretty conservative family but didn’t develop an interest until 2020. Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. What is the purpose of an American higher education?

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2024

Another poll earlier this year by the Small Business Majority, an advocacy organization with 85,000 members, had similar findings : A third have lost revenue and earnings because of employees’ child care challenges. In 2023, child care cost families $11,582 on average, according to Child Care Aware, a national advocacy organization.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Supporters of the Virginia Citizens Defense League met at the Freedom Shooting Center in Virginia Beach in 2020 to plan upcoming political actions. 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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