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Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum.

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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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Kirtley credits the spread of the model in part to the efforts of educator unions. From Aid to Advocacy Seven years after the movement began, FAST Funds are starting to measure their results. In January, the government made 14 awards totalling more than $13 million. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?”

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The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I The announcement led to a “lengthy and transparent national search” for Rhian Evans Allvin’s successor, says Ann McClain Terrell, NAEYC’s governing board president. So Kang is listening.

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The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

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Providing students personalized lessons has been a strategy “accessible to people with the means for a while,” said Maria Worthen, vice president for federal and state policy at the International Association for Online Learning, or iNacol, a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes online and blended learning.

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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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It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.

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While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education.

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In yet another survey , by the education technology company Everfi, students reported being less knowledgeable about how to manage money than almost anything else they’re called upon to do in college. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. based policy and youth-advocacy organization.

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Many of those parents had government assistance for school tuition, but half the time, Farias couldn’t count on them to make their co-payments. Because of those high co-pays, low-income families that qualify for the program haven’t used it, said Anne Hedgepeth, the chief of policy and advocacy at Child Care Aware, a national advocacy group.

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student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’ The federal government is starting to step in. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions.

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students learns differently , meaning they have a neurological difference that may make it difficult to process information, according to the National Center for Learning Disabilities , a research and advocacy organization committed to improving outcomes for people with learning or attention issues. One in five U.S.

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These bills emerged as many state governments pushed to reopen schools amidst the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite numerous surveys indicating that teachers were more likely to leave the profession due to unsafe working conditions and burnout. Testify at a public hearing.

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“At the end of the day, through something like the CHIPS announcement, we have more employers who are going to care even more about child care,” notes Anne Hedgepeth, chief of policy and advocacy at Child Care Aware of America, a national nonprofit that promotes quality, accessible child care. government for some far-off future.

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secretary of labor and president of the advocacy group WorkingNation. Nearly half of American adults consider themselves underemployed and underpaid or not fulfilling their potential, according to a survey by the educational technology company Jenzabar. Jane Oates, president, WorkingNation.

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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. This is not something we would do in any other profession.”

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“I think we all sometimes want to crave a benevolent dictatorship, like Singapore, where they're generally doing good stuff for the people, and it's all orderly, and no one's yelling at each other and there's a high degree of trust in the government,” Khan says. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says. That’s how he got involved.

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Even as many states, including politically conservative ones, have begun to invest in early learning, Idaho has resisted, with some far-right lawmakers arguing that more government intervention in education would only harm children and erode “traditional” values including the nuclear family. But we’re in it for the long game.”

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Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy. “They say, ‘Miss, I don’t know what to do, I’m scared, I don't even know if I can go to college,’” Aguilar says. But the undocumented teens that Aguilar mentors are just that — teens.

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Extremist groups fueled and funded campaigns in Massachusetts urging parents to “opt out” of sex education, denying their children vital information about topics including puberty, healthy relationships, consent, self-advocacy and more.

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By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them.

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But at the state and federal level, child care has been treated like a political afterthought, cast aside as a nice-to-have in a country that has long viewed child care as a “family problem,” not a government one. This industry is made up of, in Wisconsin, close to 98 percent women. Plain and simple: We take advantage of it.”

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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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