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APRIL 22, 2020

This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. Those privacy issues need to be addressed before you would even consider this,” said Sarah Flanagan, vice president for government relations at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. “If Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. You wanna buy a college education?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

“It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

The policy brief described several of the key barriers, including: mistrust over interacting with the government; fear of losing access to other government benefits; challenges navigating the enrollment system; and a lack of awareness. The state needs to let more people know that financial support is available, Hunt-Fleming said.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’ The federal government is starting to step in. The three-year pilot would provide $200 million to schools and libraries eligible for the E-Rate program to use toward hiring cybersecurity experts and beefing up school network security.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

Unpaid bills can be not only for tuition but also for room and board, fees, parking and library fines and other costs that students sometimes don’t know they owe. People just see student loans,” said Marissa Munoz, the New York-based regional director of the student advocacy organization Young Invincibles.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

He’s encountered subs in the hallway, looking for the library or a place to make copies of classwork. 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.

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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 Jodi Grant, Afterschool Alliance. She had to provide laptops, tablets and even mobile hotspots to a number of her kids just so they could participate.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. “We I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

In the midst of such disruption — with hastily prepared classes delivered remotely, and without professors’ office hours, libraries or advisors — students were demanding the option to pass or fail their courses this semester, instead of getting letter grades. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. Many universities and colleges agreed.

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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. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

Universities here have been allowed by the government since 2004 to set varying levels of tuition — at first, up to £3,000 per year, or $4,236, a maximum that has since grown to £9,000, or $12,708. The American government, of course, does not regulate tuition, and has no such leverage over universities and colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. The Markup requested records from 26 school districts. schools censor the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ll get back to you,’ ” said Marjorie Sims, managing director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute, one of a growing number of research, policy and advocacy organizations focusing on student-parents. The only time she could study was late at night [in the library], but the library said no.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. In libraries, books that simply acknowledge that trans people exist are pulled off the shelves.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Related: How I broke away from the endless cycle of poverty, meth and jail in rural Kentucky.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

To the surprise of many students and parents, public colleges in every state in the country except Louisiana use for-profit debt collection agencies to retrieve overdue tuition, library fees and even parking fines. If tuition were affordable, they say, students wouldn’t be stuck in the vise of debt collection agencies in the first place.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School inhabits a single-story brick building with a “little free library” in the front yard and a “discovery garden” in the back. 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.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the state and federal level, child care has been treated like a political afterthought, cast aside as a nice-to-have in a country that has long viewed child care as a “family problem,” not a government one. It’s been about the back-to-school potlucks for all the parents and the Halloween open house, the library art show.

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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.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room. Related: Governments are spending billions more on education, and it’s making inequality worse. But they had a librarian, and Taheem eagerly awaited his weekly visits to check out books. spends less.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

House of Representatives passed the “ Parents Bill of Rights Act ,” which would guarantee parents access to more information online, including curriculum, budgets, reading lists and library books, while requiring them to be notified of student requests to change their gender-identifying pronouns. Last week, the U.S.

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