The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

To the surprise of many students and parents, public colleges in every state in the country except Louisiana use for-profit debt collection agencies to retrieve overdue tuition, library fees and even parking fines. The largest is National Enterprise Systems Inc., Sánchez, senior associate at the public policy group HCM Strategists.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School inhabits a single-story brick building with a “little free library” in the front yard and a “discovery garden” in the back. A proposed ban on corporal punishment at the federal level, introduced in both chambers of Congress in 2021, highlights it as a strategy for making paddling obsolete.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

Jacqueline Rodriguez, vice president of research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said she worries the bills will discourage LGBTQ individuals from pursuing teaching careers by sending the message that “this is not the profession to pursue if you want to bring your whole self to work every day.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

He was deeply engaged in public service and community advocacy, lending his voice and expertise to advance policies aimed at creating a more equitable society. – Dr. Matthew Holden – Modern Era, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, State of Illinois Matthew Holden Jr.: Congressional Record.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 and 2022. In Pasadena, Maryland, organizers invited people to a banned books “photo booth” at a local library. For more ideas , see the actions from June and August , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. Every action counts.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Host an information table at a public site (such as a library, bookstore, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. Host an information table at a public site (like a library, bookstore, museum, festival, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. events in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. Texas will also require this, beginning in 2021-22. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. She now serves as the policy and advocacy director for SIECUS, a national nonprofit advocating for sex education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. Also in 2021 came Pennridge’s first serious battles over diversity programs. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The number of book bans in schools and libraries nearly tripled during the 2023-24 school year to more than 10,000, across red and blue states, according to a recent PEN America report. In a 2023 Washington Post investigation , researchers analyzed all book challenges filed in the 2021-22 school year across 37 states. Do your homework.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

This seemingly small accommodation is one of many that have helped push up Dominicans enrollment by nearly 25 percent since 2021, a period during which comparable institutions have struggled to attract students and as the number of 18-year-olds is about to begin a long decline. I was used to translating for them my whole life.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2025

It has not accepted any new applicants since 2021. Many public colleges in California offer students and their immediate family members access to free immigration legal services through partnerships with local advocacy groups. But by the time they were old enough to apply, the program was embroiled in court challenges. Credit: Jae C.

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