2022 Advocacy Tradition 
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 28, 2024
During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 Figures released last week show that dual enrollment grew another 7 percent in the fall of 2024 from a year earlier, even as the number of traditional college freshmen fell. Dual enrollment is exploding. That’s up from 1.5 That’s up from 1.5
The Hechinger Report
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.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 9, 2023
According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. Many disability advocates balked at the findings, published in December 2022, on social media.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. 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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 11, 2023
For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day. Juan missed 94 days of school in 2022 because he didn’t have a nurse to attend class with him. Alaska Native students’ rate was higher, 56.5 I was lonely,” Ballina said.
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