The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

For example, the success rate of economically disadvantaged students, who make up the majority of students enrolled in public charter schools, is higher than that of their peers in district-managed schools by 50 percent in English language arts, 83 percent in math and 81 percent in social studies. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Despite the heroic efforts of bloggers and school advocates, many educators STILL continue to be unaware of how think tanks, private foundations, corporations, astroturf groups, and government actors work together – often behind the scenes – to formulate harmful laws, policies, and advocacy campaigns. Related Posts.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

and it affects the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal government funding nationwide. Adult education remains critical for workers who are looking to advance economically, including those in low-wage earning jobs, opportunity youth, immigrant-origin adults, and parent learners. How does this affect adult learning providers?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

The education provisions of the law’s definition of homeless — “individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence” — encompasses unaccompanied and unsheltered youth, students in homeless shelters, kids living at a hotel or motel and children staying with friends or family due to economic hardship.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

In this workshop, the co-leaders will support early career researchers in considering the utility and sharpening the application of mixed methods approaches to key political economy questions including, but not limited to, such topics as redistribution, democratization, economic policy, unionization, and social policy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Your heart breaks that you can’t do more, but there are certain economic realities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. I managed people, built schools, designed programs and lobbied at the highest levels of government; I raised money from philanthropy and created complex strategic plans. I am a poster child for the English major.

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The Hechinger Report

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 7, 2023

Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. Most governments are doing things in those areas, but what they’re doing is insufficient to be a strong enough intervention to have an effect on the rates at which students learn,” Reville said. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. In that role, he actively recruited hundreds of black students into the space program.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. grade-point average, and give a commencement speech in May.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

Government Accountability Office found in the most recent national study of this problem, in 2017 — requiring them to retake courses and increasing the amount of time and money spent to get degrees. Those proportions are expected to rise as a result of the disruptions caused by the coronavirus. Many never get that far and just drop out.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s also the only way we are going to reach an actual inclusive economic recovery.”. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We Related: The jobs where sexual harassment and discrimination never stopped. We are seeing an increase in interest,” said Meg Vasey, a former electrician who runs Tradeswomen Inc.,

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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. Tuition and fees at the law school at St. Thomas are $42,190 a year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

Bob Casey (D-PA) tweeted , “No child should have to imagine the horror of being ripped away from their parents because their family is struggling economically.” The federal government subsidizes breakfast for close to 12.5 Shaking down parents would amount to punishing them for being poor. percent of their white counterparts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. “Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. But some parents fear that acknowledging their housing struggles could prompt the government to take their kids away.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2017

The FAFSA form includes more than 100 questions on earnings, savings, government benefits, and parents’ education and finances. Despite concerns from students, parents, and advocacy organizations, the tool will remain non-operational until the next FAFSA season begins this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Related: PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says For people who’ve long studied chronic absenteeism, the post-COVID era feels different. Many students are raised by grandparents who remember the government forcing Native children into boarding schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. There are millions of FFN providers. That’s an important step forward for this sector of the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

Universities here have been allowed by the government since 2004 to set varying levels of tuition — at first, up to £3,000 per year, or $4,236, a maximum that has since grown to £9,000, or $12,708. The American government, of course, does not regulate tuition, and has no such leverage over universities and colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In Many teachers are skeptical of yet another in what seems like a series of endless “reforms” from the state government. In terms of the proficiency-based diploma, Maine is the pioneer.”.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The federal government has played a role in the growth of these charters by granting charter startup grants to schools without considering whether they will lead to increased segregation. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. The state and federal government has to give us the resources that we need.”. But that’s easier said than done.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern. Papers on this panel use a range of methods to scrutinize different elements of local governance and citizen engagement in cities across the United States, with an additional example from Brazil. Trojahn et al.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Government officials. Tim Sullivan , formerly with the SBA Office of Advocacy and the Bipartisan Policy Center, but more recently represented the U.S. Nell Merlino , CEO of Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence. and some-time substitute host of my show. Chamber of Commerce as the VP, Small Business Policy.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Students in a course on Open Democracy added substantially to the article on Participatory democracy , a form of democracy where citizens play a more critical role in governance than representative democracy. While many students choose to tackle one of Wikipedia’s equity gaps, others focus on improving more traditional content.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2023

Government programs should be the last entity that should be restricting things that we know work.” That means coordinators avoid directing too many recipients into education, said Bryce McKibben, senior director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University. Credit: Amanda J.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

Students who have paid off all but a small number of completed classes can nonetheless have their entire transcripts held back, said Rebecca Maurer, counsel at the nonprofit advocacy group the Student Borrower Protection Center. A coalition of advocacy groups in New York is encouraging a measure there like California’s.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

The Magnolia State’s road to economic recovery has been pitched as a matter of disinfecting workspaces, conducting daily temperature checks, encouraging social distancing and using masks to keep workers and customers safe — and staying patient as the state enters a painful recession. You’re stuck,” she said. Bureau of Census.

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