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State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. Multiple advocacy organizations are pushing to increase the eligibility threshold for the program (now 150% of the federal poverty line).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

These strategies range in impact and difficulty, and some have been more practiced in the children’s advocacy world than others. The post OPINION: Cities find new ways to fill pre-K funding holes left by the federal government appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. By seizing these benefits, the federal government takes away critical financial lifelines that reduce poverty for millions of families.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America.

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JUNE 16, 2016

The major advocacy group for public charter schools is concerned that failing online charter schools may be hurting the credibility of the movement as a whole. The post Virtual charter schools need “bold action” for change, says national charter school advocacy group appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Yet the reality is that government funding decisions about education have long been a way to install and preserve racial inequality in our society. And since these inequalities have origins in funding malpractice, to remedy them, the government must use targeted funding for racial equity going forward.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. If you support people with disabilities in jobs that they want to do, they will actually be much less dependent on government services.”.

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MAY 16, 2024

The policy brief described several of the key barriers, including: mistrust over interacting with the government; fear of losing access to other government benefits; challenges navigating the enrollment system; and a lack of awareness. The state needs to let more people know that financial support is available, Hunt-Fleming said.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers. Walker supported moving people from government assistance to work. She called an advocacy hotline, appealed the decision and won, although it took several more months before she was reimbursed.

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JUNE 16, 2021

It means the government failed in their effort to ‘kill the Indian and save the man’ … Our family ties, cultural ties, ties to our land are strong.”. Related: As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools. And it’s about acculturation,” she said. “It

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

They were notified that there was a spot for them in a nearby child care center that had recently signed on to a government-led initiative to lower parent fees to just $10 a day. Some continue to say the government should have no place in child care, arguing that it is a private responsibility. many lawmakers have balked at the cost.

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They’re not in the business of sustaining this beyond their grant from the federal government,” she said. Creating this rule is one way to give the government more oversight, she said. It’s a way to say: “Let the child care experts take this, and you be the experts on building semiconductors,” she said. “The

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. The local level is where the rubber meets the road.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It draws on listening sessions with more than a thousand educators, students, parents, state and district leaders and advocacy organizations, according to Erin Mote, CEO of education policy nonprofit InnovateEDU, one of several education organizations that collaborated with the government on the plan.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.

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MAY 28, 2024

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. What I would say is cutting the program or eliminating the program is what’s unsustainable,” said Adam Barragan-Smith, advocacy manager at Educare DC. A classroom at Educare DC.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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JUNE 20, 2020

“I think there is optimism based on this worldwide movement and the fact that there’s worldwide attention on the way Black folks have been treated in this country for hundreds of years now,” said Alim, who is the Midwest engagement manager for the Young Invincibles youth advocacy group. The question I would ask is, ‘What is being done?’

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Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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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. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

He is in the process of organizing an education advocacy group called P.O.W.E.R. ” Here in Nashville, 1 in every 5 Black elementary and middle school students attending district schools is on grade-level in reading and math. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter. Nashville (Parents Organized Working for an Educational Revolution).

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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.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Once a school identifies a student as homeless, the federal government requires districts to pay to transport the student to their preferred school, regardless of cost or distance. School districts also receive state grants to boost what little, if any, money they get from the federal government to find and support unhoused kids.

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APRIL 24, 2020

Some HBCU advocacy organizations have launched emergency funds to help the institutions and the students they serve. Justin Draeger, president and CEO, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. In 2019 there were 101 HBCUs.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

But advocates and lawyers note that the federal government has not significantly altered the rules governing special education: In most cases, students must be evaluated for IEPs upon a parent’s request, and typically the evaluations must start within 45 days of that request and be completed no more than 60 days later.

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MAY 22, 2018

“When these programs were designed, it was an acknowledgment that there were low-income students who had need, and of the importance of going to college,” said Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan National College Access Network. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

That’s because the government itself so far provides only information about the proportion of veterans at community colleges and proprietary schools who graduate, and not the significant number who attend four-year universities.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Rather than try to understand why parents might opt out of state testing, the federal government simply threatened states that high opt-out rates could affect their federal funding. Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda. Why haven’t we heard more about this?

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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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MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

and it affects the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal government funding nationwide. The National Literacy Council’s website also has an extensive list of helpful resources for teaching and learning, programs, and advocacy. The census count is used to determine representation in state capitols and Washington, D.C.,

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Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

There is currently a concerted effort at the local, state, and federal levels of government to undermine, discredit, and discourage those tasked with teaching and studying black politics. The topics can span the breadth of the fields in both public administration and policy.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While some districts have prioritized the mental health of their students, Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, the director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists, said such districts are the exception.

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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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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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