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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.

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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. The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations. We are hoping for that still.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act , or ESSA, also provides increased access to funding for physical education by including the subject in its definition of a “well-rounded education.”. “At At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

It is definitely a financial burden.”. years from all other kinds of institutions, the advocacy group Complete College America says. There are institutional measures that we have from the federal government, from the state, from our board of directors. Department of Education reports that only 41 percent of them do.

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JUNE 24, 2018

Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds. In contrast, attendance at government-funded preschools is the norm in many countries. The government is subsidizing middle class child care anyway. ”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6 The federal government projects that graduate enrollment will rise by about another 3 percent through 2027 — a much more sluggish pace than in the last 10 years. It definitely needs more attention,” Stevens said.

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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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APRIL 9, 2018

After decades of demands that this be fixed, a new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that students who transfer among colleges and universities still lose more than 40 percent of the credits they’ve already earned and paid for. It was definitely a grind.” “Students beat themselves up about this.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. Not only do advisers, tutors, career counselors and coaches reach out; even the student government is alerted, said Liz Rainey, executive director of student success.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. There’s definitely a colonial imperative in the existence of those lands.” But the reality of the situation is, the chances of having the federal or state governments return it is low.” Yes,” said Stainbrook.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And the report classifies Chas as a high-level threat, though the circumstances don’t meet the definition, Mosby said. Advocacy demonstrating the harm threat assessments may pose to students with disabilities could be having an effect. The report mentions that he had “one or two episodes” of previous violence, which Mosby disputes.

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JUNE 10, 2017

I definitely would have struggled [in algebra] if I didn’t have to go through the process of re-taking.”. Many teachers are skeptical of yet another in what seems like a series of endless “reforms” from the state government. I definitely would have struggled if I didn’t have to go through the process of retaking,” Kylee said. “It

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MAY 16, 2024

Kirk: Greg O’Connor is a freshman and a member of the Student Government Association. Brendan Sheehan: Definitely. And so as you think about your own home and what types of things need to be repaired in your own home, if you had a home that was 50, 60 or 70 years old, you would definitely need to replace the roof.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Jon: Mount Ida is definitely part of a bigger trend, one that’s being felt around the country. Kirk: Definitely. Kirk: Well, in the wake of Mount Ida, education officials in Massachusetts created a so-called financial stress test for colleges like the one the federal government launched for banks after the 2008 recession.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Because, ultimately, if I don’t get assistance, I really don’t know how I will go about making this work … time is definitely ticking.”. That means a family of four with two children survived on $24,008, the income level at which a family is considered to be extremely poor by the federal government.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many. Department of Education says.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

One is that there’s no limit to how much the federal government will lend to graduate students to pay for school — they can borrow up to the entire cost of a program. It’s a simpler, more profitable market that also has an unlimited source of debt financing courtesy of the federal government.”.

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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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JUNE 24, 2023

I definitely think it should be eliminated, especially for students.” Government programs should be the last entity that should be restricting things that we know work.” Often, students think they are ineligible, even if they’re not, as government websites paint a discouraging picture. Credit: Amanda J.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Katherine Gallagher Robbins with the Center for Law and Social Policy, an advocacy group for low-income families, said that while schools aren’t viewed as child care providers in the traditional sense, elementary and middle school campuses do function as a “work support” for parents. “The I was definitely scared: Will they hire me back?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

She raised me and my sister and taught us a lot of the conservative ideals, like working for yourself, making money, not taking government handouts, and she’s been my inspiration to join the conservative Republican movement.” — Alexandra Leung, a rising junior at Saint Louis University in St. My mom is a single mother.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

secretary of labor and president of the advocacy group WorkingNation. And the government provides little help for people trying to find their way; the United States spends less on coordinated workforce development , measured as a proportion of its gross domestic product, than any industrialized country but Mexico.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Ultimately, Wilson and Boggs said, it is the position of the National PTA that all necessary equipment and staffing at public schools should be paid for with government funds. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

At those 20 institutions with 100 or more GI Bill recipients eligible to finish in 2014, the government data disclose, even the ones with the highest veteran success rates managed to graduate only one in five. There are several reasons why things are working for them. Photo credit: Peggy Peattie Photo: Peggy Peattie. Photo: Peggy Peattie.

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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. Some states changed their definitions, and others did not.

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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). My work,” she said, “is definitely cut out for me.” Hall’s campaign signs were later tagged with rainbow stickers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Kirk: Especially for a generation of students that lived through the isolation of Covid-19 and has never seen a national government that wasn’t deeply divided. No matter your political views, this is a crisis for American higher education, and its leaders are definitely paying attention. I recently sat down with John Tomasi.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Grove City College, which sued the federal government for linking accepting federal financial aid with following anti-discrimination rules. In the storm over how much money the federal government spends on student aid, and the spiraling amount of federal loan debt graduates face, Hillsdale College is an oasis.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us It’s going to be twice as hard as anybody else, but it’s possible, and I am the walking definition of it,” she tells her students. “I Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

A serious social justice funder devotes at least 25 percent of its annual giving for advocacy, community organizing, civic engagement and other systems-change strategies,” the framework says. “We Most national foundations in education don’t meet Daniels’ definition of a serious social justice funder.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The federal government is pushing for more information to be made available about college costs and success rates, saying that will help students avoid incurring unmanageable debt. The federal government has a website that promises you can “Calculate your personal net price.” College graduates in the academic year just ended.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2016

The education advocacy group the Committee for Education Funding, which opposes the cuts, calculates that they would reduce Pell spending by $78 billion over 10 years. “An Student advocacy groups oppose the funding changes. An enormous amount of hardworking taxpayer money goes into education in this country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In a speech in Columbus, Ohio, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said high college costs are being propelled in part by the cost to universities of complying with government regulation, and cited a report that this expense was $150 million at Vanderbilt University alone. The details appear more nuanced.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Brody Scully] Because I definitely learn where theres probably a smaller group of people, so I’m looking for that. Brody Scully] I would say yeah, definitely, and, like, time intensive. So this is definitely a longer trend that we’re seeing. Kirk] Is it anxiety-inducing for you guys, going through this process?

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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

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. At the center of the court challenges is that the Biden administration’s new rules, issued in April, expand the definition of “sex” to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

The billions in aid that the federal government spent to help students recover had some modest impact , but students are still behind where they would have been academically. The pandemic definitely set a tone. Focusing on that self-advocacy component, that is crucial for that population. The pandemic left other marks too.

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