The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them. More than 2.5 million kids in the U.S.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Recent world migration reports note that, by the end of 2022, the total number of refugees was the highest ever recorded with modern statistical techniques. Beginning in the 1960s, with extensive foreign aid, the Tibetan exile government in India built an infrastructure of Tibetan medium schools specifically for Tibetan refugee children.

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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. But no one told Petersen that.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Oregon joined this list, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, when then-Gov. Studies suggest affordability is one of the leading causes of attrition.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Tribal nations and states have struggled with state and federal governments over jurisdiction and land since the inception of the United States, says Alex Pearl, who is Chickasaw and a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. After the lockdown period had eased, in early 2022, Jen and her students accompanied Cassandra and MASC leaders in their first return to in-person meetings at the Massachusetts State House. Meetings are where people come together in time and space. prisons and jails.

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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. Many students are raised by grandparents who remember the government forcing Native children into boarding schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Meanwhile the pressure schools face to prevent violence is real: In 2022 there were 285 school-shooting incidents in which a gun was brandished or fired, or a bullet hit school property, the most of any year since at least 1970, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database compiled by the Naval Postgraduate School.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

District administrators are committed, as is the school board, and even the county government has embarked on an equity mission for the broader community. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. And, of course, there is the coalition.

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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. Students lost between 3 and 14 months of learning.

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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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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 14, 2023

government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. One government agency has been able to reach Tameka. Then, in Summer 2022, the school unenrolled her children because their lease had expired. But her partner worked construction and had a car. Communities such as St.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

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. That’s an important step forward for this sector of the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Some take place on college campuses or online, but many are overseen by high school teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the spring of 2022, after enduring a string of 10-day quarantines, James, a human resources director, and her husband, an employment attorney, decided to pull their son out of child care to try to keep the family healthy before the birth of their second child. “We Credit: Image provided by Mitch Meyer.

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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 Sevier County, Tennessee, where Dollywood is located, the median cost for infant care is between $650 and $900 per month, according to 2022 estimates found in the U.S. government for some far-off future. In other parts of the country, though, it wouldn’t go nearly as far. Department of Labor’s National Database of Child Care Prices.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Then, in September 2022, the family experienced a dramatic shift in fortune. 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. It’s like I won the lottery,” Petersen said. Could Milwaukee provide the answer?

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

You can help us broaden this important work by running a Wikipedia assignment in Winter/Spring 2022. 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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Kristie Ezzell, who retired from Russellville schools in 2022 after 31 years under four superintendents, saw the transformation firsthand. Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.” News & World Report.

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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. By 2022, that number had decreased to 1,416, or about 15 percent of the student body.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. To put this into context, that number was just 41 bills in the whole of 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In a city where child care can easily consume more than half of that, Funes was optimistic that she would qualify for a government-funded subsidy to help her afford the cost. The federal government requires that subsidies go to families that make no more than 85 percent of their states median income.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern. This roundtable will build upon the recent contributions in this idiom of Chambers (2019), Farrell et al (2022), Niemeyer et al (2023), and Minozzi et al (2023), with participants from the authors of all these papers.

Political Science 53

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The administrator had been working to hire more staff with $4,000 Giggles & Wiggles had been receiving monthly since 2022. Combined with a tuition increase, the funds helped raise wages by $2 to about $14 an hour on average in the fall of 2022, but it still wasn’t nearly enough to attract job candidates to the center.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As President-elect Donald Trump promises to withhold federal funding from schools that do not comply with executive orders restricting curriculum content, state and local officials must take steps to protect school governance decisions that reflect the will of the people in their communities. Do your homework.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

She said it was confusing, poorly written, and not vetted by the board’s legal counsel (instead it was reviewed by the anti-LGBTQ Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom). It had been swiftly and unanimously approved in June 2022 and was delivered to replace the curriculum that was out of print.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. Eleven states didn’t run interstate checks at all, the 2022 report found. Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican.

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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. As of early 2022, it had the highest number of January 6 arrestees of any locality, according to local media.

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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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