The Hechinger Report

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. Partly because it’s a grassroots movement without clear leadership or an elaborate organization. Why haven’t we heard more about this?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. But the government, so far, has stopped short of requiring that any data be collected on how often school districts take this action. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Executive Director provides leadership and vision; gives strategic advice to the governing officials and committees and implements their goals; communicates with members; manages the staff and budget, oversees all Association activities; and represents the Association to the outside world.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Providing students personalized lessons has been a strategy “accessible to people with the means for a while,” said Maria Worthen, vice president for federal and state policy at the International Association for Online Learning, or iNacol, a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes online and blended learning.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I The announcement led to a “lengthy and transparent national search” for Rhian Evans Allvin’s successor, says Ann McClain Terrell, NAEYC’s governing board president. So Kang is listening.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 13, 2016

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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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. It also added parent and student liaisons who would have a voice in the leadership of the project. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Now, many worry that the district won’t rebound — and will head back into the cycle of rotating leadership, low performance and lack of public trust that existed before the turnaround. He has proven leadership,” she said. We’re hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.” I had to say, ‘Time out. This is what we want.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“In rural areas there’s often not the tax base you find in an urban or suburban school to fund additional programs,” said Lavina Grandon, co-founder and board president of Rural Community Alliance, a nonprofit school advocacy organization. You’re losing a connection with those students,” she said. “We They expect to add five more next year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Many teachers are skeptical of yet another in what seems like a series of endless “reforms” from the state government. And still other schools have made changes only to have them reversed when leadership or other circumstances change. None of these processes have endeared teachers or students to the new rules.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Kirk: Well, in the wake of Mount Ida, education officials in Massachusetts created a so-called financial stress test for colleges like the one the federal government launched for banks after the 2008 recession. The college leadership has all the cards. The federal government is a second line of defense. What’s that?

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

These bills emerged as many state governments pushed to reopen schools amidst the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite numerous surveys indicating that teachers were more likely to leave the profession due to unsafe working conditions and burnout. Testify at a public hearing.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Whenever we need something, we simply ask for it and they do their best to get it for us,” Martínez said of his district’s leadership. And even if they can’t, they find alternatives that we can use.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

At those 20 institutions with 100 or more GI Bill recipients eligible to finish in 2014, the government data disclose, even the ones with the highest veteran success rates managed to graduate only one in five. There are several reasons why things are working for them. Photo credit: Peggy Peattie Photo: Peggy Peattie. Photo: Peggy Peattie.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2021

As the needs of the post-pandemic economy evolve and new Democratic leadership gets settled in Washington, several fabled ideas for revamping the Pell Grant program could have new life pumped into them. Three proposals now in play would transform the Pell grant as it approaches its 50th birthday. But some advocates are wary.

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MPSA

JUNE 11, 2021

Students have tackled subjects ranging from African Politics to Women, Politics, and Political Leadership and everything in between. They created the article on the Villagization of Ethiopia , a largely unsuccessful and ultimately detrimental attempt by the Ethiopian government in the 1980s to reform agriculture.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern. Papers on this panel use a range of methods to scrutinize different elements of local governance and citizen engagement in cities across the United States, with an additional example from Brazil.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary. We’re going to say you get to choose.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. In Mississippi, under state and federal regulations, districts are supposed to report corporal punishment to the state monthly and to the federal government about every two years. During the February hearing, Rep.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As President-elect Donald Trump promises to withhold federal funding from schools that do not comply with executive orders restricting curriculum content, state and local officials must take steps to protect school governance decisions that reflect the will of the people in their communities. Do your homework.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

There’s going to need to be support for all of the child care providers out there, every kind, coming from the government,” Beaver said. billion for the government subsidy program aimed at providers who serve low-income families and another $750 million for Head Start, the federal care and education program for families living in poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Not only are students betrayed by school officials who don’t teach climate change in lessons, but also by governments all over the world that are facilitating the pollution of the air and the oceans. Related: As Republicans stress political fiction over facts, students’ math and reading scores fall.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government-funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice. In Indiana, thanks to DeVos’ funding of advocacy organizations and her financial contributions to political campaigns, then-Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Park Guthrie (upper left), founder of Schools for Climate Action, believes that government inaction on climate change is a form of child neglect and argues that educational organizations have a responsibility to press Congress to do something. But after attending an advocacy event in Washington two years later, and hearing that the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. They led a letter-writing campaign requesting Pennsylvania government officials investigate “school board overreach in Pennridge.”

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. Her leadership will matter because she’ll elevate it in conversations. Her leadership will matter because she’ll elevate it in conversations,” Perry said. Related: Read Hechinger’s full interview with Clinton. The structure has changed.

Government 59

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donald Trump’s administration was known for its advocacy of school choice, but that wasn’t something he talked much about on the campaign trail in 2015 or 2016; it only came into focus with his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education. Anything is possible.

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