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Student Agency is More Than Voice and Choice

A Principal's Reflections

However, we must not lose sight of the third element that comprises this concept, and that is advocacy. Image credit: [link] While voice and choice are more aligned with ownership of learning in the classroom, advocacy aligns with improving the school or district culture. There is no point in student advocacy if no action results.

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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

ED Surge

The legislation is the first of its kind in the states history, Day said. 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. It includes $26.25 Alabama has the flexibility to do so.

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OPINION: We need targeted funding for racial equity in our public schools. California may have some lessons for all of us

The Hechinger Report

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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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting. Related: As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

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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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

The Hechinger Report

“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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Eligible for job and college aid, half of Tennesseans with disabilities get nothing

The Hechinger Report

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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