Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

This roundtable will focus on Balasco, Forestal, and Abernathy’s Engaging Citizenship, a forthcoming introduction to politics textbook (Oxford University Press 2025). In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Through a state program called Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3), which was funded at $475 million for fiscal year 2024 and which the governor has recommended be renewed at the same level for fiscal year 2025, nearly 93 percent of licensed providers in the state are receiving monthly stipends. It all has to come together for it to work.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

(Despite promising in 1974 to cover nearly half the extra cost for schools to provide special education, the federal government has never done so.) The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

renowned political scientist, distinguished educator, and cherished mentor, passed away on January 26, 2025, at the age of 93. and Grace Doherty Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs was marked by his contributions to political theory, public administration, and race and politics. Dr. Matthew Holden Jr. Congressional Record.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

Government Accountability Office. And, as in Seward, many communities struggle to cover school facility maintenance costs without help from the state or federal government, which have long been parsimonious. Government Accountability Office to need their HVAC systems updated or replaced. Mike Dunleavy, a former educator.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.” Thanks in part to his advocacy, the state now has instructional support for districts, 12 coaches and a state director of English learning. It has been scrapped.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us By 2025, no undocumented high school graduates will be eligible for DACA under current rules.” Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy. before they were 2 years old. Some of those students are in Aguilar’s classroom now.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Its also never been so at risk: First a federal funding freeze hit providers, then a chunk of Head Start federal support staff were fired by the Department of Government Efficiency. This process, which maps out the next fiscal year, is separate from the recent vote to fund the government until Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The schools remoteness on a 518-acre reservation the government forcibly relocated the Havasupai people to more than 150 years ago makes it a challenge to staff, and chronic turnover required the few educators who remained to teach multiple grades at once. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Enforcement actions undertaken in these locations have a ripple effect,” said Heidi Altman, the director of federal advocacy at the National Immigration Law Center. At school the next day, there were whispers that the school would be targeted for violence and that the government was going to come back and take kids away.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The federal government plays a role in serving those students by issuing guidance, defending their right to a free appropriate public education and providing money. President Donald Trump has vowed to shrink the federal governments role in education. We have to look at it, he said of the Project 2025 proposal.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

It is creating so much more work and chaos,” said Emma Grasso Levine, the Title IX policy and senior program manager at the advocacy group Know Your IX. Related: How could Project 2025 change education? In some cases, schools in the very same district are subject to different rules. “It Are we enforcing this rule or that rule?“

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

They also worry that without anyone in the federal government keeping tabs on how special education is being delivered, cash-strapped districts could try to cut corners at the expense of students with disabilities. million students with disabilities receive the services that the law says they should receive. What about 504 plans?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2025

Now, this work is under threat because of cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. There are things that the Department of Education does that probably should be better left to the states, or, quite frankly, the federal government shouldn’t be involved in, he said.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSAs Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions for a PS Now series entitled 2025 APSA Election Reflections. The views expressed in this series are those of the authors and contributors alone and do not represent the views of the APSA.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The proposal would “help address the shortage of child care through smart removal of cost-­increasing red tape,” testified Elizabeth Patton, state director of Americans for Prosperity Kansas, a conservative advocacy group. For a time, it looked like the country might be headed in a very different direction.

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