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Massachusetts Is Investing Big in Early Care and Education. It’s Paying Off.

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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D.C. experimented with giving child care workers big raises. The project may not last

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2024

But earlier this year, the roughly 4,000 early educators who have benefited from the pay equity program were dealt a blow by Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2025 budget proposal. The program has been able to pay teachers more without passing the costs directly to parents, said the center’s advocacy manager, Adam Barragan-Smith.

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Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

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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Trust issues

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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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

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. At the California State University System, that’s part of a plan to more than double the proportion of freshmen who finish in four years from the current 19 percent to 40 percent by 2025. Choose as many as you like.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education. Many teachers are skeptical of yet another in what seems like a series of endless “reforms” from the state government. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

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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These Educators Grew Up Before DACA. Now Their Students Face the Same Barriers.

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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Trump’s deportation plan could separate millions of families, leaving schools to pick up the pieces

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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Title IX regulations on sex discrimination can be Trump-era or Biden-era, depending on your state or school

The Hechinger Report

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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Theme Panel: Civic Learning on Campus: Bringing Political Science In Mini-Conference I, II and III

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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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

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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How a Lack of Child Care Affects Small Businesses

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 dark future of American child care

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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Massachusetts Is Investing Big in Early Care and Education. It’s Paying Off.

D.C. experimented with giving child care workers big raises. The project may not last

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Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

Trust issues

Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

These Educators Grew Up Before DACA. Now Their Students Face the Same Barriers.

Trump’s deportation plan could separate millions of families, leaving schools to pick up the pieces

Title IX regulations on sex discrimination can be Trump-era or Biden-era, depending on your state or school

Theme Panel: Civic Learning on Campus: Bringing Political Science In Mini-Conference I, II and III

Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

How a Lack of Child Care Affects Small Businesses

The dark future of American child care

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