The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22. Rochester City School District recorded the second most, with 854. That’s not what happens.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

My favorite comparison I see a lot is about asking a fish to climb a tree. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. And that’s not the case,” said Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., There are limited data on the issue.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It’s the first time this kind of data has been compiled and analyzed nationally, and some of the spending gaps are extreme. Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending. The data was from the 2018-19 academic year, with the exception of Nevada, which has released only the data from 2017-18.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Most administrators will want to review a syllabus from your former school for comparison.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

They say it’s easier to learn the odds of winning Powerball than of graduating, or to comparison-shop for a mattress than to compare the actual cost of tuition, fees, and other expenses among schools. Tom Allison, deputy policy and research director at the millennial advocacy group Young Invincibles, is skeptical of this argument. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. Census data. By comparison, the national average is about 20.4 “We should be spending more than any other state because we have more poverty — significantly more poverty.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

As more states, like New York, decline to adopt or drop those tests, that comparative data remains largely elusive. It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. Data disclosed in U.S. Our data adds those excluded districts back.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Benner and her co-authors compared three years of financial data for PTAs in Portland and Seattle — enrollment size, per pupil spending and socioeconomic data are similar between the two.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

These negotiated sales make up the bulk of money in municipal bond sales, according to data from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a trade group for broker-dealers and investment bankers. The groups said that a competitive bidding process would add bureaucracy and time and wouldn’t end up saving taxpayers money. “We

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. Data on at-risk families with 1-year-olds—kids like Kinsley and Jani—was even more alarming: Only 7.3

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

So the data aren’t collected. . Some make guesses based on census data, calculating how many undocumented children arrived before 2007 and have lived in the United States continuously since. Last month the Migration Policy Institute released figures based on 2014 census data. For comparison, 18 percent of the general U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

billion a year in GI Bill benefits that come with them offer nowhere near as much support, and their student veterans rarely get degrees, according to data obtained from the Departments of Defense, Education and Veterans Affairs. Related: Placement rates, other data colleges provide consumers are often alternative facts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The most trumpeted new approach focuses around a complaint system and a separate GI Bill comparison tool that flags schools the department determines are in trouble. An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

By comparison, only around 30 percent of BIE schools were doing the same. On the Navajo Nation, which surrounds Hopi, less than 4 percent of the population has access to even the most basic wireline broadband, according to federal data. It did catch us to an extent to be unprepared.”. Stalled Aid.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” ” The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy has thoughts on the pushback , making the comparison between Zuckerberg ’s corporate and philanthropic efforts and inBloom. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2016

At a time when the presidential primaries have refocused attention on income disparity, and new data show the socioeconomic divide on campuses getting wider , some policymakers want to change these programs to better help lower-income students. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. You can find stock market data about publicly-traded education companies at funding.hackeducation.com. Even without funding data to underscore its importance, “personalization” can’t be dismissed. Why, schools of course.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Dan Quinn, research director and press secretary of the Texas Freedom Network, an advocacy group that was founded to challenge the influence of the religious right in state politics, calls the standards a “muddled mess when it comes to climate science.” It’s very common to face backlash in the classroom.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. We’re lucky to have one candidate who has a track record like that,” said Kris Perry, head of the First Five Years Fund, an advocacy group that advises both Republican and Democratic politicians on early childhood policy. The structure has changed.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

By comparison, just 19% of Democrats believe that colleges’ and universities’ effect is negative.). Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills. What are the implications – on knowledge-making and knowledge dissemination – of that divide?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Privacy overlaps with “personalization,” and surveillance overlaps with data collection and analytics and algorithmic decision-making. Among the larger National Education Association (NEA), which comprises more than 3 million members, more than one in three who voted did so for the billionaire developer, early data show.”

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