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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. Even before the FAFSA fiasco, that’s been happening.

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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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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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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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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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OCTOBER 23, 2023

House Republicans recently returned to one of their favorite targets for spending cuts: the country’s most vulnerable youth and the schools that serve them. Their plan would represent a major setback to efforts to achieve racial equity in our nation’s public schools. Looking at average breakdowns from recent data , we see that U.S.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Her first two years of high school, she cycled through three different schools. Nationally, just 50 percent of foster youth graduate high school by age 18, according to estimates, and 2 to 9 percent obtain a bachelor’s degree. Government programs have also freed up some financial support.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. Schools are supposed to log instances of paddling within their walls, which districts are then supposed to compile.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

6, 2018, in front of Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. In addition, the report references the anti-tax revolution , which began in the ’80s and continues today, and promotes the idea that government-imposed taxes are unfair or that they stifle innovation and economic growth.

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APRIL 17, 2024

In a study she co-authored of an unusual program that gives college scholarships to both high school students and their parents in Toledo, Ohio, the Institute for Policy Research found that students and parents alike performed at or above average , despite what Sommer noted were financial challenges and limited academic preparation. “Ask

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Meadowbrook High School students entering the school’s Colt College center, where they can take tuition-free college courses without leaving the campus. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

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AUGUST 26, 2018

In 2011, federal figures show, 201 of its incoming freshmen got Pell Grants, part of more than $325 billion the Congressional Budget Office estimates the government has paid out through that program in the last decade to help low-income students nationwide earn degrees. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. The Nokomis Regional High School ninth grader said she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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