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He graduated from high school with a Regents diploma in 2013 — a feat accomplished by only 18 percent of students with disabilities in New York City that year, compared to 70 percent of students without disabilities. Nationally, 76 percent of people with disabilities have high school diplomas and only 12 percent have college diplomas.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

Robert Wells graduated from high school with a B+ average. 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. at Nashville State Community College. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

A student walks toward Elko High School on Dec. Nationally, about 25 percent of superintendents have made a similar decision in the past year, compared to a typical turnover rate of 14 to 16 percent, according to the American Association of School Administrators. “And Robinson concluded they weren’t and resigned in June 2021.

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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. There was nothing like this. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines. Eli Clark, high school junior, Austin, Texas. Nearly two months went by.

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But by the time her son, Ian, entered high school, Barrera decided to invite a bilingual volunteer from a local nonprofit to sit with her and to remind the school team of her rights. “I When Ian entered high school, bullying and his safety became Barrera’s top concern.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Her older kids loved their high school sports teams and she couldn’t imagine uprooting them. “‘Oh Please don’t make us go to another school. Oh no, Mom.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. This story also appeared in USA Today The son of parents who work at a hospital and for UPS, Agyei wanted to go to a school away from his home state of Illinois, but that was too expensive. Miguel Agyei. Meanwhile, costs keep going up.

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APRIL 26, 2022

The federal government provided billions of dollars to help schools recover from Covid, and some tapped that money for temporary stipends to attract new substitutes. But the stakes to find more permanent solutions are high. A lot of substitutes only need a high school diploma and know very little about education,” Basile said.

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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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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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APRIL 7, 2023

A study of Florida’s third grade retention policy revealed that English language learners who were held back became proficient more quickly and were more likely to take advanced courses in middle and high school. Lucy Kells, parent While reading is a strong predictor of later school struggles, so is poverty.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. Department of Education released guidance that clarified regularly sending a child home early was likely akin to a suspension, and should be reported by the school. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S.

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MAY 22, 2018

The crisis has been stoked by years of budget cuts combined with an increased number of applicants, due to a growing awareness that good jobs require more than a high school diploma. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network. People may think this is just happening in their state.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

I knew it was education after high school, but that was it,” Nino-Zavala said. “I Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. No one in her family had gone to college. The daughter of Mexican immigrants and eldest of five siblings, she was only dimly even aware of the concept. “I

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

“My son has always really liked school because he really does like that interaction with his peers and other children his age,” said Richmond. “So Maryland mother Veronica’s son was banned from attending his high school after the school district concluded he posed a threat. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Kennedy School of Government, Victoria Dzindzichashvili pauses in the Harvard Square subway station and reflects on the decade it took her to get here. But not every student can make the leap to full-time status, said Karen Stout, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Achieving the Dream; many have neither the money nor the time.

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JUNE 14, 2021

In 2013, families at a Seattle high school raked in more than $100,000 for a raffle to win a Tesla Model S. The year before, the parent teacher association at Garfield High cleared $40,000 in raffle tickets for a Nissan Leaf. This story also appeared in South Seattle Emerald and The Nation. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school. Who goes to college to learn what they were doing in high school?” The culprit, say experts and academics, has been the rules governing community college placement decisions. Eventually, he dropped out too.

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MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. We are building all of that now to make sure we’re better prepared,” he said.

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JULY 30, 2019

More than 40 percent of students of color go to high-poverty schools, compared to only 8.5 A similar program, the School Breakfast Program, helps ensure children start the day with a meal. The federal government subsidizes breakfast for close to 12.5 For a 1,000-student high school, it means $1.2

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.

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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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APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It She said it’s frustrating that the concerns of after-school and child care providers are not being heard in the same way as other businesses.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

But I’m not going to waste my time, my money on uniforms, for him to go to a school where he’s just going to fail.” 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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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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DECEMBER 6, 2022

That leaves schools in much of the country, including Arizona, free to punish most students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more. Yet the scope of that practice is largely hidden: The federal government doesn’t collect detailed data on why schools suspend students, and most states don’t, either.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Tameka never graduated from high school and has worked occasionally as a security guard or a housecleaner for hotels. Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. One government agency has been able to reach Tameka. She has never gotten a driver’s license.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It It sends a message: The federal government does believe [physical education] should be part of a student’s education; it should be part of the school day.”. Most states don’t require middle or high schools to offer recess at all.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We At her high school in Beaverton, Oregon, “they never talked about the trades,” she said. We are seeing an increase in interest,” said Meg Vasey, a former electrician who runs Tradeswomen Inc., We are still really struggling with the retention numbers.”.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

District administrators are committed, as is the school board, and even the county government has embarked on an equity mission for the broader community. Uriburu said this is the first time the Black and Latino communities have teamed up to advocate for better schools, and they are very clear about their right to make demands.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. This is increasingly true among high school graduates less accustomed to forging their own paths, he said.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution. Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. a former assistant U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. by funding schools and hospitals for them. Arlee High School is a public school on the Flathead Reservation. public schools, and some don’t attend state-run schools at all. Yes,” said Stainbrook.

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