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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Totals for the full public school population are likely much higher, given that almost 250 school systems failed to produce comprehensive data — or any data at all — under Arizona public records law. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Too often, our education system sends the one in five children with learning and attention issues into the world without the skills they need to succeed. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. The Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.

Advocacy 75

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We need to name the racist policies baked into our postsecondary system that contribute to this unequal burden. At Generation Hope, we are building a policy and advocacy agenda driven by student parents all over the country that will prioritize removing financial barriers to college completion for Black parents.

Policies 141

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. And despite a lack of regional public transit, the school has no shuttle system for students in surrounding towns, an issue the university’s chancellor, William J. Lowe, acknowledged.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

school system is a “mess.” I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. But, I still want to be president, too.

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MAY 7, 2019

The United States’ ignoble history of segregation, housing and employment discrimination and a broken criminal justice system has kept millions of black people from supporting their families and robbed us of opportunities to create wealth. Decades of segregation confined black people in specific neighborhoods.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

But it’s another thing to actually have support systems to deal with the students that are there.”. We kept saying, ‘Oh, it’s because they have issues at home, they have to work, it’s the public school system,’” she said. “We Other state systems, such as those in West Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, have begun similar efforts.

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JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No health care system to its limits and accelerated the demand for qualified health care professionals. This story also appeared in USA Today. It was her biggest obstacle yet. “I

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

. “It looks good from the curb, but when you get inside you see that Black and brown people are worse off economically than in West Virginia — and no one wants to talk about it,” says Frank Brown, who heads Communities in Schools of Atlanta, an organization that runs dropout-prevention programs in Atlanta Public Schools.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

In a Youth Radio interview , she commented that “some parents didn’t understand what the report card system was and more often, they didn’t know how important college was.” In each of the above examples, students’ passions led them to express themselves in some powerful way, whether that was video, blog, advocacy, or research.

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APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The district handed out its existing stockpile of loaner devices and hot spots to as many students as possible, said Preston Thomas, OUSD’s chief systems and services officer.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We Students risk getting stuck in deficient online programs for weeks or even months without the support they need and falling behind in their academics.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. “Never in the modern history of our education system has the importance of family engagement been more apparent,” says Alejandro Gibes de Gac, the founder of Springboard Collaborative.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

In a Youth Radio interview , she commented that “some parents didn’t understand what the report card system was and more often, they didn’t know how important college was.” In each of the above examples, students’ passions led them to express themselves in some powerful way, whether that was video, blog, advocacy, or research.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. Even within a system, credits may not be accepted. Some states’ figures are even higher.

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JULY 18, 2023

The same is true for the University of California system, the University of Arizona and other institutions across the country. Perrantes now works as a program manager for Mother Nation , a Seattle-based nonprofit that focuses on cultural services, advocacy, mentorship and homeless prevention for Native women.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

He blames the system. Kate worked with one local group to develop a career plan and spent three weeks in Minnesota at a life skills program which her parents hoped would introduce her to the idea of being away from home and improve her self-advocacy. But Lord doesn’t blame teachers. Everybody meant well,” he said.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

Two examples of the latter: WBEZ Chicago’s investigation into the city’s questionable methodology for tracking dropouts and in-depth reporting by the Los Angeles Times on that district’s credit recovery program.). is a very different question than “Are more young adults prepared for success after high school?”

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JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Either they’re fooling themselves or they’re not being honest about how the systems they’ve set up work against that. What about turning out your product in the four years that you promised?”.

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APRIL 7, 2024

A client might meet with the collegiate recovery program coordinator, for example, to receive counseling about which career paths might be a good fit and which ones might present obstacles due to the client’s history with addiction and the legal system.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. You can kind of rationalize somebody’s frustrations if you feel a level of trust in the system, a level of trust in your school,” he said.

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Then she was summoned to the financial aid office, where she learned that the university, part of the California State University System, was giving her a grant of up to $1,500 to help her get across the finish line. “I She considered quitting, or transferring to a community college. I walked out of the office crying. The upshot?

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JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. What does it mean to have your educational system uploaded for commodification and surveillance?” Our education system is completely racist. Our education system is completely racist.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

He concluded that in a system that wasn’t serving low-income black children well, their families should be able to opt out. Fuller launched his chief advocacy arm for school choice, the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, housed at Marquette University, more than two decades ago. The trade-off.

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MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Superintendents then leave it up to principals and often parents to decide whether to use corporal punishment on a given student, creating unequal systems of discipline within the same communities and even the same classrooms. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down. Once you get red, you get paddled.”. She shook her head.

Elementary 145

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” Via Futurism.com : “Schools Are Installing Bathroom Surveillance Systems to Bust Vapers.”

Education 55

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. . “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? ”).

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MARCH 6, 2017

He is a member of the Latino education advocacy group Nuestra Voz and a student at Cohen College Prep in New Orleans. Schools are the best naturalization system we have. But the real monsters are the pervasive fear of being deported and a broken and backlogged immigration system. Related: Throw me some beads, mister!

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JUNE 22, 2022

They have already built the systems and are developing the ranks of young people to help one another get the reproductive health care they need. Beyond student advocacy networks, young people can also seek help through hotlines and abortion funds. What advocates are doing. We need young people’s creative solutions,” Cartagena said. “We

Accessibility 28

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Department of Education Announces Requirements for New Federal Loan Servicing System.” ” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education.

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