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AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. Consequently, anti-racist teachers like you and me must organize like-minded educators to form our own community. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Loading… Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Five of the state’s 124 high schools are on target to hand out the new diplomas next spring, according to a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education, while others have barely started to make the transition. Many teachers are skeptical of yet another in what seems like a series of endless “reforms” from the state government.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces. To be clear, this lack of teachers testifying was not the fault of educators. Unfortunately, many governing bodies such as State Boards of Education and State Legislatures make participating in the policy-making process nearly impossible for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

Research from the RAND Corporation and the Learning Policy Institute and National Education Policy Center (LPI-NEPC) show that community schools are a good investment and an effective change strategy. They have collaborative leadership structures that help educators connect, pool resources and think more expansively.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 18, 2023

Congress regarding the importance of education. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education,” stated President Kennedy. In his address, the president even spoke to the financial realities of higher education and institutional sustainability.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the election over, now is the time for legislators and leaders in states and the federal government to turn their attention back to education. Related: COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever. First, we have had a total failure of federal and state leadership on education.

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JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

Education reformers have built their platform and careers on the value of accountability. The NAACP resolution calls for school districts and the federal government to create structures that hold charter schools to the same standards to which they hold traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

At the same time, state governments have tried to enact harmful and costly policies, like drug-testing recipients , aimed at restricting access to such programs and making it more difficult for people facing food insecurity. student in Education Policy at Vanderbilt University and an alumna of the University of Mississippi.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Student loan industry profiteers advocate for their interests no matter who’s in charge of the federal government, but they found a remarkably receptive audience under U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and CFPB acting director Mick Mulvaney. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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. Amy Laitinen, director of higher education, New America think tank. But some advocates are wary.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

More than 40 percent of school districts need to update or replace their ventilation systems in at least half of their schools, according to a report by the Government Accounting Office. Diana Quintero, senior research analyst, Brown Center on Education Policy. Every dollar makes such a huge difference,” she said. It’s a help.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve HISD leadership is a disaster…. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. The new DEI committee was disbanded in early 2022, as students continued to report racial hostility.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

See, whatever you thought about the Harris-Walz ticket’s particular proposals, the Democrats had things to say about education issues that genuinely shape children’s development: affordable early care and learning, access to nutritious school meals, funding for English learners , and more. Related: How would Project 2025 change education?

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

In the case of forecasting what education policies Kamala Harris might pursue as president, though, a more apt analogy might be reading her mind. Frankly it’s anyone’s guess what her education policies would be given how few clues we have. Predicting the future is often compared to reading tea leaves. Bush administration.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

[Donald Trump] The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical left, and we will do that. Jon] Let’s begin by separating Trump’s campaign rhetoric from political reality and exploring how likely changes in higher education policy will affect you.

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