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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. There is intentionality, there’s leadership here,” she said of the Davenport program. It has six campuses in Michigan along with its online program.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it. The odds for Hare now appear good.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Instead of passively accepting the void in federal leadership, cities such as Memphis are finding innovative ways to bring together the public, private and nonprofit sectors to finance and expand needed services for children, and increasing pressure on local officials to reinvest in child services.

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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. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the fall of 2022, his senior year, the teenager finally got a dyslexia diagnosis, but by then it was far too late to give him the help he had long craved. Partly through the leadership of parents such as Winston, that’s changing as more families learn about reading disabilities and the extra support a diagnosis can bring.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

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.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As of fall 2022, Stony Brook is one of 33 higher ed institutions where students can apply for money through a local FAST Fund to help cover an education expense or address a basic life need. From Aid to Advocacy Seven years after the movement began, FAST Funds are starting to measure their results. It was honestly pretty awesome.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

The teachers wanted to discuss the need for more anti-racist professional development at Lusher and the possibility of increasing diversity among Lusher’s leadership, including on the board of directors, whose seven members include two people of color, according to school administrators. Talbott denied this, as did Gleghorn.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Under her leadership they traveled to South Africa, where they visited Robben Island Prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and they visited Soweto. Prentiss and Charney spoke to the inaugural cohort of Prentiss Charney Fellows in October of 2022. S he lost in 1986 and won in 1990. Prentiss, May 21, 1991. September, 2019.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Now, many worry that the district won’t rebound — and will head back into the cycle of rotating leadership, low performance and lack of public trust that existed before the turnaround. The proportion of chronically absent students doubled to about half of the entire student body from 2020 to 2022.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Sign Up to Host an Event Leadership These events are coordinated by the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change), Black Lives Matter at School , and the African American Policy Forum. Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 and 2022.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Leadership The annual Teach Truth Day of Action is coordinated by Rethinking Schools’ and Teaching for Change’s Zinn Education Project and led by educators around the country with the support of the co-sponsors listed below. Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. Walking tours.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Kristie Ezzell, who retired from Russellville schools in 2022 after 31 years under four superintendents, saw the transformation firsthand. News & World Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2025

We will use every tool possible including litigation, advocacy and coalition-building to advance the cause. Our organization, along with Hillel International and the American Jewish Committee, organized two summits on this topic in 2022 and 2024, fostering important dialogue with dozens of college and university presidents.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They’re constantly looked over for promotions and leadership opportunities, or pigeonholed into disciplinarian roles. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

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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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Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

By 2022, federal funding had dropped by one third, to 40%, while business spending on research had increased to 40%, an increase of 25%, according to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (Pece & Anderson, 2024). Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. ” Washington Post , Feb. Gans, Paul, and S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Before the election, conservative political advocacy groups mobilized their members to file book removal petitions, regardless of whether those filers were the parents or caregivers of a child enrolled in those schools. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter to receive our comprehensive reporting directly in your inbox.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which includes Arizona, heard their arguments in February 2022. The state passed a universal school voucher program in 2022, giving any family who wants roughly $7,400 to spend on private or parochial schools or other options. A three-judge panel of the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

At the first Moms for Liberty summit, in Tampa in 2022, attendees were invited to a well-choreographed unveiling of the dangers facing children in public school — and an urgent call to get involved. The us-versus-them framing is not new. As it got underway, some 300 people populated a hall with a capacity of 3,702. Well, we are all learning.

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