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By SuperUser Account on
Published on: 10/3/2006
We Georgians can disagree about many issues when it comes to public education, but on one crucial point we can all unite: If we want to transform public education in Georgia, "It Takes a Parent." That is the name of the new national Appleseed Report, the only one of its kind, released last week, that investigates how the No Child Left Behind Act looks to parent involvement as a central strategy to promote student academic achievement.
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By SuperUser Account on
Published on: 10/1/2006
Shortly after the Appleseed Center released its blistering report on the problems at D.C.âs HIV/AIDS Administration, a new director was chosen to head the agency, former AIDS Action Executive Director Marsha Martin.
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By SuperUser Account on
Published on: 10/1/2006
Nebraska taxpayers paid health care costs last year for nearly 10,000 workers employed by some of the state's biggest businesses. At least 9,369 workers and an unknown number of their dependents received benefits through Medicaid, the taxpayer-financed health care system for the poor.
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By SuperUser Account on
Published on: 9/27/2006
Parent involvement in NCLB school standards is found lacking Inadequate parental involvement is hindering fulfillment of the federal No Child Left Behind program's goal to improve the nation's schools and produce better students, a two-year research project by an independent nonprofit has found. In a report released today called "It Takes a Parent," the Appleseed Foundation concludes that too many parents don't learn NCLB-required data about their children and schools soon enough to make timely and informed decisions; that poverty as well as language and cultural differences impose barriers to parental involvement; and that such participation "is not uniformly valued by school leaders as a key accountability strategy." To counter such trends, Appleseed is calling for better quality of information, active engagement of parents, community support, and professional development.
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By SuperUser Account on
Published on: 6/16/2006
The Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice has been busy since its planting in November. The nonprofit organization, one of the newest in the group of Appleseed public interest law centers around the nation,
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By SuperUser Account on
Published on: 5/20/2006
New Jersey Appleseed is one of the organizations bring activists from Tri-State area gather in NYC to mobilize for renewal of Voting Rights Act.
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By SuperUser Account on
Published on: 5/14/2006
As the U.S. Senate tries to move toward meaningful immigration reform this week, Jacqueline Cerda and her husband, Jesus Meza, anxiously await the arrival of a long envelope from another branch of government.
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By SuperUser Account on
Published on: 5/14/2006
If a famous baseball player who will earn $4 million this season is relying on Money Mart rather than his corner bank, we cannot fairly expect the nation's other 20 million immigrants to do it any differently.
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By SuperUser Account on
Published on: 5/11/2006
Sharon N. Hill gets big firms to take on the system at Georgia Appleseed, a new public interest law group
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Published on: 5/4/2006
A federal appeals court said Thursday the state of Nebraska was wrong to cut Medicaid payments to some 800 single working parents in 2004.
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