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APRIL 26, 2022

Unlike the other subs — many of them parent volunteers or people looking for a little extra work — he’s a full-time, salaried employee with health benefits and a long-term contract with Everett Public Schools , north of Seattle. Nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled in the school district last fall.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. But the older law left retention decisions up to districts.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Teachers and school personnel who work with low-income students are more likely to trust their own work and don’t see students as liabilities or risks. If teachers commit to sending their own children to public schools maybe people who pay tuition to alleviate their fears will follow. This effort does that.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Vancouver Public Schools identified 743 students as homeless this year. Public schools identified 1.1 million kids as homeless in 2020-21, the most recent school year for which data was available. But roughly 85 percent of these children didn’t qualify for public housing assistance.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

ATLANTA – It’s unclear to Tameka how — or even when — her children became unenrolled from Atlanta Public Schools. This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. But it was also about race and class.”

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MARCH 29, 2018

Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. “There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Unfortunately, school cupboards across the country are bare — or at least underfunded. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. There are bigger budgetary issues behind school supply drives. Get out of the line to buy school supplies and get in line to demand the state fully fund public schools.

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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.” A high-poverty school is defined as one in which 75 percent of students are eligible for the NSLP. And the number of students in these schools is on the rise.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Related: School counselors keep kids on track. Rural districts tend to have a harder time recruiting school psychologists, said Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists. Why are they first to be cut?

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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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JANUARY 15, 2021

If those trends continue, they could exacerbate existing racial and socioeconomic gaps in higher education, as four-year schools, which tend to serve wealthier and whiter populations, bounce back more quickly while the pandemic hollows out community colleges that have been slowly leaking students for a decade.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. For evidence of that, all people have to do is glance at their local public schools, said Murdock.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. In 36 states and Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Related: When your disability gets you sent home from school In 2021-22 alone, the 17 school districts that provided data issued more than 1,600 long-term suspensions, an average of nine per school day. City School District of Albany meted out 280. That’s not what happens.”

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I She had started public school and no longer traveled to BMCC with her mother, and didn’t understand why she saw so little of her. “I

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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. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school?

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MAY 10, 2017

For example, while nearly two-thirds of a sample of high school seniors in urban Boston public schools said they intended to enroll in a two- or four-year college the next year, less than a quarter actually did so.

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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.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Dozens of these ultra-green schools are going up in every sort of district – urban and rural, affluent and lower income, blue state and red state. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Another net-zero elementary school, also designed by VMDO, is to open in 2019. “I

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was proof that his initiative to break up large campuses into smaller, more personal schools was working. They don’t have the choice to, say, tax real estate developers to fund their schools.” On its face, such claims seem fair.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. For evidence of that, all people have to do is glance at their local public schools, said Murdock.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

This is not as easy of a job as the pastoral campus in these comparatively affluent surroundings suggests, teeming as it is with earnest-looking youngsters in neat school uniforms. say that there is also huge value in simply exposing youngsters in primary and secondary schools to college students. Even the highest-income U.S.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Chad Gestson, superintendent of the Phoenix Union High School District, walking with Cheri Hardwick, principal at the Academies at South Mountain. Credit: Phoenix Union High School District. last spring, public schools across the country were forced to grapple with how best to educate their students while still protecting lives.

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JUNE 17, 2021

BOSTON — Alex Harris loves his job working with students on the autism spectrum — “my superheroes,” he calls them with a broad smile and a deep laugh — in the Boston Public Schools. But in the beginning there was a lot of resistance, and we needed to have a lot of advocacy to take this bill across the finish line.”.

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Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. I didn’t have time to exercise. I didn’t have time to cook.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

This was clearly no ordinary public school. A driveway circling a landscaped pond led them to the school’s main hall. Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The effect is the same — forging partnerships with the city and local organizations to invest in the economic development of the community,” she said in a statement. We focus on meaningful investments that provide local jobs and economic opportunity, along with sustainable community partnerships.”

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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. The analysis projects $9.6

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Related: OPINION: When Black parents benefit from school choice, it doesn’t perpetuate racism. Overt racism like this is, I hope, less prominent in today’s public-school classrooms than it was 30 years ago in my own — if for no other reason than no one can ever again claim that a Black person can’t become president of our country.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community. Warren’s plan, A Great Public School Education for Every Student , is one of the most comprehensive education policy proposals by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2024

I had to leave my job to get on public assistance so I could get this child care subsidy. But for years after, the quest for a voucher would interfere with her quest for economic stability. Many parents are stuck, said Jennifer Greppi, parent policy director at Parent Voices California, an advocacy organization.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. In Austin, 53 percent of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged.

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JUNE 8, 2023

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us led with a startling figure: Most of the 120,000 high school students living in the country without legal permission who are graduating this year are ineligible for DACA. public schools were born. before they were 2 years old.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While the county is about 16 percent white and 82 percent black, the public schools are nearly all black. Fewer than 30 white students are enrolled in the entire district, a steep decline from the fall of 1966, when about 6,000 black students and 1,000 white students attended the county’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Howard Fuller, former superintendent of Milwaukee’s public schools. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools. Fuller’s remedy? The trade-off.

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