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DECEMBER 1, 2017
Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. However, there is not much research on the life outcomes of students with disabilities who attain high school diplomas versus those who get alternative exit documents. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Future improvement is unclear.
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DECEMBER 6, 2017
Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. 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.
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AUGUST 7, 2023
Related: How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever The stakes of such discipline playing out in schools across the country “are fairly enormous,” said Sara Zier from TeamChild, a youth advocacy organization in Washington State that also provides legal services.
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MARCH 21, 2017
Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.
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JULY 10, 2019
Nearly two decades ago, the reporter Todd Oppenheimer documented the aggressive rise of emerging Silicon Valley technologies — personal computers and the Internet — in the nation’s public schools. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.
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DECEMBER 3, 2019
percent of CSU students now finishing in four years , up from 19 percent in 2015. ( Researchers have documented widespread food and housing insecurity among students across the country, and the purchasing power of the federal Pell Grant, which can help cover living costs, is at a historic low. Department of Education says.).
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JULY 6, 2018
Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. Corinthian shut down after the Obama administration fined it $30 million in 2015 for inflating its job-placement rates. That was far below the state average.
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