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Partner Spotlight: United Way of Greater Cincinnati

Education Superhighway

One cohort member, the United Way of Greater Cincinnati (UWGC), has been advancing ACP advocacy work in southwest Ohio and the tri-state area. By 2025, we aim to increase digital access by 5 percent, with a particular focus on families with low incomes. We realized that advocacy would be a critical piece of the puzzle.

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

Davenport’s tuition prices will apply to the Casa Latina programs, but accepted students will be awarded scholarships of $9,200 per year to help make the program more accessible financially. And colleges across the country are bracing for a shrinking number of graduating high schoolers after 2025 to have an effect on their enrollment.

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Undocumented High School Students Are Now the ‘Post-DACA Generation’

Edsurge

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. before June 15, 2007 — 16 years ago.

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Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

The Hechinger Report

And school districts face an escalating threat of parent lawsuits, or even federal investigation, if they don’t take language access seriously. The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights.

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As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

The Hechinger Report

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, is surrounded by rolling hills and factories.

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SJSU iSchool: "Deaf Community and Culture and Best Practices for Libraries" + "Supporting Libraries and Reading in School - AB 2465"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

LeBlanc Memorial Library, Springfield Oregon Rosa Rodriguez, Deaf Literacy Center Manager, Pinellas County Library, Florida Marti Goddard, Access Services Manager, San Francisco Public Library Concluding Remarks (2:40 – 3 p.m. Select “Education” and that will allow you to access the site to “Submit Position Letter.”

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

Even if that rebounds, the number of potential future college freshmen graduating from high schools nationwide will begin decreasing after 2025 , the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education estimates. Colleges competing for students “know there’s a bad brand out there for the liberal arts.

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