2011 2017 Advocacy Assessment 
The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2020
The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks. Education systems will also have to adjust how they assess students and schools.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 10, 2017
Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. Mary Nadeau, principal of Nokomis High School in Newport, poses for a photo in a hallway of the school on Friday, June 2, 2017. Elderkin says she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests.
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Edsurge
MARCH 5, 2020
She recalls that when she got the job in 2011 as director of early childhood programs for the Butler County Educational Service Center, which encompasses Butler and Preble counties, “It was usually a couple of classrooms that we’d be like, ‘Whoa, this is really chaotic.’
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 31, 2020
Nearly 90 percent of the school population is considered low-income and nearly three-quarters are labeled English learners, meaning that the state language arts test assesses their reading and writing ability in a language they’re still trying to learn. Credit: Courtesy of Corey Dixon/2017. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 4, 2016
“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. Officials would not say whether the state would again fail to match and thus lose federal funds in 2017. More advocacy.”.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Curt Coy, who was the VA’s deputy under secretary for economic opportunity from 2011 until his retirement in late 2017, said it was hard to find resources for veterans’ educational issues. In a 2011 congressional hearing, then-Sen. The VA has received at least 37 complaints about Ashford from GI Bill beneficiaries.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available.
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