ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. Anytime we have parent-teacher conferences, it’s the Cub Connection teacher's responsibility to communicate that information to the parent.

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ED Surge

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Even as a higher education becomes among the biggest investments Americans make, the information available about what students and their families are getting for their money remains stubbornly sparse and often inaccurate and even misleading. Or, for that matter, how much that degree will ultimately cost or the likelihood you’ll ever earn one.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

and it affects the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal government funding nationwide. It’s important to inform hard-to-reach and undercounted groups and communities that the 2020 Census process can be quick, easy, and safe. You can share this information and encourage adult learners to apply. Everyone counts!

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The Hechinger Report

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. In Vancouver,a shelter provider had to inform callers to its housing hotline that they might have to stay in their car for two weeks before they could get help.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Taylor School District officials said they could not discuss student information without authorization. Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. “They brought up safety of staff and other students, which as a parent, I understand,” she said. But my kid matters, too.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage. Studies suggest affordability is one of the leading causes of attrition.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Tribal nations and states have struggled with state and federal governments over jurisdiction and land since the inception of the United States, says Alex Pearl, who is Chickasaw and a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Most governments are doing things in those areas, but what they’re doing is insufficient to be a strong enough intervention to have an effect on the rates at which students learn,” Reville said. “If Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL.

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The Hechinger Report

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. This will inform how the state will pursue additional federal dollars.”. More advocacy.”. It’s a start,” said Hammett. More paperwork.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Watching includes the acts of staying informed and of being a participant observer. Among other actions, she articulated two concepts – watching and naming – that she thought were particularly important for members of a community who wish to be deeply involved and fully present.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When parents inform APS that they are unable to provide updated proof of residence, protocols are in place to support families,” Atlanta communications director Seth Coleman wrote by email. Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. Communities such as St.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. Information. In that role, he actively recruited hundreds of black students into the space program.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Related: Colleges provide misleading information about their costs. Now she is commuting to graduate school at Harvard. Photo by Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Listen to the whole series TRANSCRIPT Scroll to the end of this transcript to find out more about this topic, and for links to more information. But the fact that it even exists, Kirk, proves there’s demand for this kind of information. I think what I would do is, frankly, look at a few sources of information.

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The Hechinger Report

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 When a lot of people were not taking it seriously, we had basically sourced information from Taiwan,” she said. “We Jodi Grant, Afterschool Alliance.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The condition impedes a person’s ability to process written information and can negatively affect their career and well-being. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

And many of the public, government-run schools – where 70 percent of all children study – have no computers or tablets. A more nuanced view of how blended learning is working in India can be seen in a 2015 report done by the membership and advocacy group CoSN. India has also had long had a problem with keeping girls in school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Lori Raineri, president of the Sacramento-based independent public consulting company Government Financial Strategies, says she frequently hears from school district leaders who relied on relationships, referrals or marketing to choose their financial team but lack the quantitative expertise to evaluate the advice they get.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Generally, after an incident occurs or staff receive a tip — say, a student gets into a fight or posts on social media condoning the use of violence — a team uses a structured process to gather information, interview the student and witnesses, and decide on a threat level to assign the student. In comments submitted to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

Listen to the whole series TRANSCRIPT Scroll to the end of this transcript to find out more about this topic, and for links to more information. Kirk: Greg O’Connor is a freshman and a member of the Student Government Association. “College Uncovered” is made possible by Lumina Foundation. Jon: So, Kirk, how’s the food?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Ultimately, Wilson and Boggs said, it is the position of the National PTA that all necessary equipment and staffing at public schools should be paid for with government funds. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

There’s no reliable source of information about how many students arrive at college without a major; one national survey of freshmen found that about 9 percent were undecided. years from all other kinds of institutions, the advocacy group Complete College America says. Department of Education reports that only 41 percent of them do.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2017

The FAFSA form includes more than 100 questions on earnings, savings, government benefits, and parents’ education and finances. Through a connection with the IRS, the tool automatically takes information from an applicant’s tax return and fills in the relevant sections on the FAFSA.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Related: Colleges provide misleading information about their costs. One is that there’s no limit to how much the federal government will lend to graduate students to pay for school — they can borrow up to the entire cost of a program.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I’ve had guests from all industries offering information and advice on marketing, taxes, legal matters, finance, technology, exporting, and more. Government officials. Tim Sullivan , formerly with the SBA Office of Advocacy and the Bipartisan Policy Center, but more recently represented the U.S. Stroll down memory lane.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 One nonprofit advocacy group calculates that 10 states spend more on employee pensions than on higher education; in Illinois, more than half of the $4.1 So have state employee pension obligations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s. they never return.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. Related: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a nonprofit child advocacy and research organization, has been fighting for more financial support for relatives caring for children outside of the formal system for years. And Peterson Lent says state governments must do more than simply have supportive policies in place.

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The Hechinger Report

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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