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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In 2022, the state division got creative. In 2022, New Orleans voters passed a local property tax to generate $21 million per year for child care for infants through 3-year-olds. Multiple advocacy organizations are pushing to increase the eligibility threshold for the program (now 150% of the federal poverty line).

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report. Canadian labor groups have also supported the efforts , something that has recently become a more prominent strategy in the United States, especially after efforts to pass child care legislation faltered in 2022.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Barry Zuckerman, who created the first medical-legal partnership in Boston more than 30 years ago, saw the need for family advocacy first hand during his childhood, in the 1950s.

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MAY 22, 2024

I received state disability benefits back in 2022, when my health crisis began, but it wasn’t renewed the subsequent year. But this experience left me wondering — where is my safety net when I fall ill or seek retirement as an early childhood educator?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. This doesn’t help low-income families.” This doesn’t help low-income families.”

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MARCH 21, 2024

About 23 percent of Latino adults between the ages of 25 and 29 have a bachelor’s degree, compared to 45 percent of their white peers, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center report. It has six campuses in Michigan along with its online program.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, average fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores fell for most states between 2019 and 2022. In 2022, post-pandemic, that number has climbed to 38 percent. Thirty-seven percent of fourth graders were below the basic reading level in 2022, according to the results. Eighth graders fell eight points.

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MARCH 1, 2022

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, the federal government paused student loan payments, interest and collections in March 2020 and recently extended that pause until May 2022. Michele Streeter is the associate director of Policy and Advocacy at The Institute for College Access & Success. Families cannot afford to wait.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Related: An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in While engineering is one college discipline in which men continue to outnumber women , Northeastern has since 2022 even been admitting slightly more female than male first-year engineering students.

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JUNE 15, 2024

Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. Another series followed in 2022, and this time, there was a professional interpreter and headsets available for translation. I’m looking for another opportunity.’”

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

students in July 2022, when the Emergency Connectivity Fund expires – with no concrete plan to extend it. There’s plenty of data showing that student performance has been negatively impacted [by the pandemic],” said Phillip Lovell, associate executive director at the education advocacy nonprofit, All4Ed. Subscribe today!

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JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Credit: The Baltimore Banner James Murphy, the director of postsecondary policy at the advocacy group Education Reform, said he expects legacy admission preferences to disappear through a combination of legislation, like Maryland’s bill, and institutions voluntarily dropping the practice.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. A lot of people talk about the issue of hiring. It’s not an issue. It’s not an issue.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report Last year, New Orleans added more than 1,000 child care seats for children from low-income families after voters approved a historic property tax increase in 2022. The referendum raised the budget of the program seven-fold — from $3 million to $21 million a year for 20 years.

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MAY 8, 2023

They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. One of their leaders held a Science of Math event in Pennsylvania in 2022 and is planning another in 2023. The researchers continued to meet almost every month during 2021 as their campaign gained momentum.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Many disability advocates balked at the findings, published in December 2022, on social media. To the contrary, for some children, it appears that being taught in a segregated setting is actually beneficial.”. “Every student is different, and ‘inclusion’ for one student may look different from others. .

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MAY 19, 2024

Last year, nearly 80 percent of graduates enrolled in college, up from 65 percent for the class of 2022. The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In April 2022, Natalie was selected as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her work also aims to advance understanding and advocacy for tribal sovereignty rights. She is a proud tribal member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribal nation.

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MAY 28, 2024

The research firm Mathematica found that, by the end of 2022, the program’s initial payments had increased child care employment levels in Washington by about 100 additional educators, or 3 percent. Early data suggests that the pay equity program has helped the city hire, recruit and retain child care employees. A classroom at Educare DC.

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MAY 16, 2024

million informal caregivers receive the subsidies or related payment, according to a 2022 report from the BUILD Initiative, which provides support to state leaders for early childhood programs. Hunt-Fleming spends whatever hours she can on advocacy work for her colleagues through a program called California Leading from Home.

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APRIL 18, 2024

According to 2022 data from Common App, about 450,000 applicants that year met the federal definition, meaning that neither parent had a bachelor’s degree, including about 300,000 students whose parents had never attended any college.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2023

This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. Fast forward to September 2022, and I am finalizing modules on Canvas, our learning management system, to continue to deliver the same quality professional learning, but in an entirely different format.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While legislative discussions have recently stalled , advocacy efforts continue to mobilize toward an ambitious policy package that would impact millions of little learners and families. Starting in 2022, we need to reimagine our future of learning to be relational around key relationship pillars (“PTLM”).

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments. percent to 22.5

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MAY 30, 2024

The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States. New York in 2022 passed the Green CHIPS Act, which provides tax incentives for companies to expand semiconductor manufacturing there.

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JUNE 7, 2022

Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable?

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APRIL 22, 2025

His diverse experience bridges policy, education, and advocacy, reflecting his commitment to academic excellence and civic engagement. Helen has been a participant of APSAs Teaching and Learning Symposiums: Teaching Political Science at Community Colleges in 2022 and De-Centering the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Then, in September 2022, the family experienced a dramatic shift in fortune. The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. Related: The child care crisis is reaching crisis proportions nationally.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the 2021-2022 school year, the latest year for which data is available, the nationwide average was 408-to-1. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At These counselors assist with postsecondary planning but also boosting academic achievement and interpersonal skills.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2022

In May, Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo, called for increased child care solutions at Child Care Aware of America’s 2022 Symposium in Arlington, Virginia. Business leader associations and advocacy groups are also pushing for child care solutions.

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ED Surge

MAY 18, 2022

Earlier this month, as thousands of early childhood educators and advocates gathered in Baltimore for the 2022 National Head Start Annual Conference, attendees exchanged first-hand accounts and anecdotes from the field, sharing what the last couple of years have been like for them and what it’s like right now.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. But no one told Petersen that. Beth Petersen watches as her son leaves for the school bus on Oct. And school is stability.”.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Louis, in the spring of 2022. After a fight broke out involving two of her children and other classmates in October 2022, Crawford and her lawyers say all five of her kids were placed on virtual learning. A single mom, Crawford left her longtime home of Memphis to get her family away from gun violence near their home.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

According to the course description, topics include executive functioning and time management; social cognition, context awareness and how to take on the perspective of another person; communication and relationship skills, and self-advocacy. But this measure is imperfect: It includes students who have physical disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

A third of school leaders reported an increase in fights among students, and 56 percent said there had been an uptick in classroom disruptions that they attributed to Covid disruptions, according to a federal survey released in May 2022. in September 2022. You can’t learn if you’re not feeling safe or nurtured.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

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. Juan missed 94 days of school in 2022 because he didn’t have a nurse to attend class with him.

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