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MAY 28, 2024

Council in 2021. 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. What I would say is cutting the program or eliminating the program is what’s unsustainable,” said Adam Barragan-Smith, advocacy manager at Educare DC.

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ED Surge

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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MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. McCoy published a survey of classical learning schools in 2021 for Manhattan Institute, which painted it as an “attractive option for parents.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. According to Tameka, staff visited her in Spring 2021 after receiving calls from the school complaining her children were not attending online classes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

(Despite promising in 1974 to cover nearly half the extra cost for schools to provide special education, the federal government has never done so.) 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

More than a quarter of students missed at least 10 percent of the 2021-22 school year, making them chronically absent, according to the most recent data available. Many students are raised by grandparents who remember the government forcing Native children into boarding schools. All told, an estimated 6.5

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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 A Time of Transition And then in spring 2021, NAEYC’s CEO of nearly a decade announced she would be stepping down in the coming year. So Kang is listening. We’re just doing it differently.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group. The district is starting to bounce back post-Covid.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. Most governments are doing things in those areas, but what they’re doing is insufficient to be a strong enough intervention to have an effect on the rates at which students learn,” Reville said. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe. “I spent months writing,” she said, “just crying while I wrote because of how it felt to not be recognized.”

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From September 2020 to April 2021, AJ sat at home, getting on average less than two hours of daily live interaction with teachers. Advocacy demonstrating the harm threat assessments may pose to students with disabilities could be having an effect. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. In comments submitted to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

It’s a sign of fraught times for these schools and for the training boot camps that offer ISAs, with lawsuits mounting, federal and state governments imposing restrictions and students reporting mixed satisfaction. There’s another reason for Back a Boiler’s pause: clampdowns by the federal government on certain schools that offer ISAs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. Is this actually what we want?’”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Yet the scope of that practice is largely hidden: The federal government doesn’t collect detailed data on why schools suspend students, and most states don’t, either. Related: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

After decades of demands that this be fixed, a new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that students who transfer among colleges and universities still lose more than 40 percent of the credits they’ve already earned and paid for. “Students beat themselves up about this. They blame themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The law requires that by 2021, students graduating from Maine high schools must show they have mastered specific skills to earn a high school diploma. By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Many of those parents had government assistance for school tuition, but half the time, Farias couldn’t count on them to make their co-payments. Because of those high co-pays, low-income families that qualify for the program haven’t used it, said Anne Hedgepeth, the chief of policy and advocacy at Child Care Aware, a national advocacy group.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Have governments spent enough money to meet the unexpected and very steep costs of the last year? Experts — and history — suggest that school districts need much more than what federal and state governments have provided so far. Any decline in revenues for state and local government is going to be a huge hit to K-12 schools.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

In summer 2021, Dollywood announced a partnership with WeeCare, describing it as an “unparalleled child care benefit for hosts working at the Smoky Mountains theme park.” government for some far-off future. That wasn’t feasible or practical. They’re already here, and employees are already taking advantage of them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2021, Canada’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report. That argument has helped build support, said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

They were notified that there was a spot for them in a nearby child care center that had recently signed on to a government-led initiative to lower parent fees to just $10 a day. In 2021, the country’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. Then, in September 2022, the family experienced a dramatic shift in fortune.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

Credit: Vanessa Leroy for The Hechinger Report In 1986, the federal government mandated that states provide therapy for newborns and toddlers with developmental delays and disabilities, but the program has been dogged by severe racial gaps in access and quality since its inception. .:

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Teaching may now be the most stressful profession period, according to a RAND survey from June 2021, which found, among other things, that teachers were almost three times more likely to report symptoms of depression than other adults. But there are indications that it has only gotten worse since COVID-19 entered the profession.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Students in a course on Open Democracy added substantially to the article on Participatory democracy , a form of democracy where citizens play a more critical role in governance than representative democracy. The deadline to apply for Wiki Education’s free support in Spring 2022 is November 21, 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Neither the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services nor the Government Accountability Office have audited the states to ensure they were following the reporting provisions, both offices confirmed. The 19th also found one state with outdated statistics: South Dakota’s most recent data is from 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Russellville City school district created De La Rosa’s position in early 2021 as part of a larger effort to help educate its growing population of students who speak English as a second language. Since 2021, Russellville High has been named one of the top 25 schools in Alabama by U.S. Just drawing,” De La Rosa said.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

who are undocumented but are able to work thanks to DACA protection, granted before the policy entered legal limbo most recently in 2021. Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But they are often contentious, and the seven other Ivy League universities pay some property taxes on those buildings or voluntarily pay millions of dollars every year to their local governments and school districts. Not one university in New York City does, including two of the nation’s wealthiest institutions, Columbia and N.Y.U.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2022

Colleges with at least 25 percent Latino enrollment are designated as Hispanic-serving Institutions, or HSIs, by the federal government and are eligible for certain grant programs to further Latino student success. But the Latino population in the United States continues to increase.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 3, 2023

Civics education in Texas has been turned into textbook study by a 2021 law that bans student interaction with elected officials. Apparently, the Republicans who control state government want to keep students in the dark about getting involved in civic action.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

During the 2021 legislative session, there were over 50 bills introduced targeting transgender youth participation in sports as well as bans on gender-affirming healthcare. In May 2021, at the peak of the debate over Texas’s HB 25 , calls from the state to the national Transgender Lifeline Crisis Center increased 71.6 State officials.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2021

Amy Laitinen, director of higher education within the education policy program at the think tank New America, said she agrees the federal government should invest in job training programs, but that Pell isn’t the appropriate vehicle. “I Amy Laitinen, director of higher education, New America think tank. But some advocates are wary.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Murray, Weber State University (Presenter) Allison Rank, SUNY, Oswego State Session Description: Democratic erosion in the United States—rendered vivid in the events of January 6, 2021—as well as the global decline of democratic regimes should push us to reflect on how we introduce politics to students.

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