The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2021, Canada’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. More recently, advocates have presented child care as a public good and a right, similar to K-12 education. For many years, the province of Quebec has shown the potential benefits of government funding for child care.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine. Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The American Rescue Plan in March 2021 created the $7.2

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. The advent of universal preschool for all children is more recent. college and university.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

million students don’t have reliable internet connectivity in their homes, according to Digital Bridge K-12, an initiative from EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit. “So, the majority of their kids — almost a hundred students —missed out on this opportunity to engage with their teachers, because they simply didn’t have the tools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

I understand how the dysfunction of the federal government in the early stages of the pandemic crippled states and localities and their ability to respond. Would March 2021 look different from November 2020? I miss meeting kids from all over the city.

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ED Surge

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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Related: California helps college students cut their debt by paying them to help their communities Students with foster care backgrounds often must overcome hurdles rooted in their K-12 education. During the 2021-22 academic year, eight CSU campuses referred students and funneled about $5.2 But holes remain.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Shareef’s mother saw a TV commercial for a program that offered 12 weeks of training for technology careers, tuition-free. The federal government alone runs dozens of training-related programs, and state and nonprofit programs abound, too. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit and Shareef was laid off. But what happened next has not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We The homework gap isn’t new.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And, like her peers nationwide, her transition to first grade in the fall of 2021 was a challenging one. million students in public K-12 schools in the United States who qualified for special education services. In 2023, the federal government invested $15.5 Unfortunately, we’re not alone in this reality.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Mohammadi’s life changed overnight when she was forced to flee Afghanistan, her home country, following the Taliban’s ascension and the withdrawal of American troops from the region in August 2021. Mohammadi is one of the 76,000 people who were evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021. Her mother had worked with the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The state’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software grant program , created in 2013, requires ed tech companies to train teachers like Pitts on their products and obligates the businesses to credit the state if the licenses are never used. But many of the products weren’t high quality.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

After 18 years of running her business out of a small, 10-foot by 12-foot room off the back of her house, she used federal funds to double the size of the classroom and add a bathroom. Cisneros has run a child care program out of her home by herself for 12 years. You watch this and I’m thinking, this is a no brainer,” Renner said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Community college students will spend an average of $1,840 on transportation during the 2021-22 school year — more than their counterparts at public and private four-year colleges — the College Board reports. Related: Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

With the pandemic raging in Los Angeles, the 2021 Grammys have been postponed until March 14. Public and private K-12 schools are finding new ways to keep music teaching alive because they have to, said Johnathan Vest, a Tennessee music teacher. Related: OPINION — What’s missing in music education? Cultural and social relevance.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

According to a 2021 research study by Dove, 53 percent of Black mothers revealed that their daughters experienced racial discrimination because of their hair — some as young as five years old. From the time I was a child, social norms governed my hair. The issue is not Black hair. The issue is how the system regulates Black hair.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Due to student privacy concerns, a number of states fail to connect their K-12 school and workforce data sets. Another consequence: Louisiana is one of just five states that do not report to the federal government exactly how many CTE students find jobs soon after high school, a U.S. The rest keep school and work data separate.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees. The retirement age for new teachers was also raised, from 58 to 64.

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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. The school has identified 12 third graders to receive extra reading support, but far more than that could face retention under a new state policy. Because it is just one assessment.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The new data reflects the 2021-2022 school year and reveals that, nationwide, there was an average of 408 students for every one school counselor. This report shows that there are almost 121,000 K-12 school counselors in the country — the most ever since we began tracking this in 1986. Oh my gosh, I love that question so much.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. 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. This predicament is not rare. We’re just doing it differently.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

But in May, sitting in the office of her school’s family support specialist, Joell Stubbe, Karolina talked excitedly about going to Buffalo State university, where she’s been accepted into the class of 2021. Mental health is a big piece of the puzzle here,” she said of her school, which goes from pre-K to fourth grade.

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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. Education equity advocates are demanding that the federal government do more to learn the scope of the problem. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. In comments submitted to the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

The Engage Every Student Initiative is a national campaign, started in 2022, that calls for communities to provide high-quality, out-of-school-time learning opportunities for all interested students by using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. We don't have enough places for our youth to go.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Just past the rusty roof of the building across the road, we could see the top of Regjeringskvartalet, a cluster of government offices, the target of that car bomb. All kindergartens are governed by the same framework and requirements, designed to protect the sanctity of the early years. That’s our ‘Capitol Hill,’” Ullmann explained.

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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. Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. The experts told them they should “get to the heart of the science of reading,” said Kimberly Davis, principal of the pre-K to grade 8 school.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

These same funders of over a hundred partners are behind Project 2025, a 900-page, conservative extremist mandate to roll back civil rights at all levels of Federal government. Gregory Wickenkamp , educator and Iowa City event host A few years ago I was pushed out of K-12 teaching when politicians scapegoated my teaching practice.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

14, 2021 • Studies Weekly Sandra Bradshaw, a second-grade teacher in Texas, is in the education field because she wants to positively impact students’ lives. Studies Weekly Spotlight: Texas Teacher Shares Passion for Nonfiction Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. Each of Maine’s 124 high schools is required to offer such diplomas to the Class of 2021, next fall’s ninth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

A government-funded foundation in the United Kingdom is trying a new approach, something it calls “ ed tech testbeds.” Nesta is planning 12 ed tech trials during the 2020-21 year with three each quarter. But Nesta’s testbeds will also include researchers from the University of Durham to evaluate the 12 trials.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

But since 2009, according to David Smith, the district’s chief of communications and government relations, the district has had to cut more than $50 million from its already tight budget because of state cutbacks, threatening progress in a district that had seen some significant and surprising gains for its students.

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