Accessibility Advocacy Dropout Resources 
Digital Promise
APRIL 23, 2019
In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Let’s start a movement.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 29, 2020
Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new. The homework gap isn’t new.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 2022
Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources. Such a program benefits colleges as well, by helping them boost enrollment and, ultimately, bring in more money from the former dropouts. “It
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. Briana, an alumna of our program, explained the experience at her college like this: “I don’t think I would have found any resources unless I sought them out purposely.”. That compares with 14 percent of Black students nationally.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2023
She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. They said they’d be back to set her up with resources to help her with parenting. Inconsistent cell phone access isn’t uncommon among low-income Americans. For more than two years, she says, “they never came back.”
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