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This High School Gave Spending Power to Students

Asher Lehrer-Small

February 23, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Central Falls, Rhode Island

An elective course at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island allows students to research and propose improvement projects for their school, which are then voted on and implemented using earmarked funding for the program. The participatory budgeting process has helped revamp the school cafeteria, upgrade the library furniture, replace outdated bathroom mirrors, and more.

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Undocumented students win a fight for educational equality in Arizona

Maritza L. Félix

February 22, 2023 |

Oregon Live |

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Response Location: United States, Arizona

DACA recipients and advocates in Arizona spent months knocking on doors and speaking with Latino voters to push for the passage of Proposition 308, a measure allowing undocumented students to qualify for in-state college tuition. Their campaign, as well as their outreach with Republican lawmakers, helped get the proposal signed into law in 2022.

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Indigenous Foodways Are the Focus in a Growing Number of Classrooms

Renata Birkenbuel

February 15, 2023 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Great Falls, Montana

Montana's Indian Education for All program ensures that both Native and non-Native students have the opportunity to learn the history and culture of local Indigenous peoples, such as through an experiential bison harvest.

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Contested community college degree programs help fill job training gaps, ease student debt

Naina Rao

February 13, 2023 |

AfroLA |

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Response Location: United States, California

A pilot program in California allows community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees programs in areas such as health information management and interaction design. In 2016-17, nearly three quarters of graduates from the pilot degree programs finished their studies without taking any loans, and about 80 percent found work within three months of graduating.

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Driven by his own experience, this young Nigerian started an NGO to rescue street children

Arinze Chijioke

February 12, 2023 |

IkengaOnline |

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Response Location: Nigeria

Street Priests Incorporated engages with youth living on the streets in Nigeria to offer them scholarship funding, food aid, reunification with their families, and more. The organization has helped more than 17,000 children through its programs since 2014.

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Black families are changing the educational landscape through communal home-schooling

Char Adams

February 08, 2023 |

NBC News |

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Response Location: United States

Motivated by educational disparities, lack of culturally relevant programming, and safety concerns in public schools, Black families are forming homeschooling pods and co-ops that allow them to tailor their children's education while also finding a sense of community support.

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Yams, cassava: The Nigerian free school run from farm produce

Kehinde Ogunyale

January 31, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ebenebe, Anambra

The Anam New City School, a tuition-free school that serves children in remote villages in southeast Nigeria, helps support its operating costs by cultivating crops and livestock on the school grounds. About half of the agricultural yield is used to provide meals for students, while the remainder is sold to fund administration costs.

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Eat-Learn-Play: Bridging the Nutrition and Education Gap for Wassa's Displaced Children

Thelma Chioma Abeku Ikemefuna Igwe

January 30, 2023 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Wassa

The Transitional Learning Center provides children ages four to 14 with free education, school supplies, and one meal per day to not only encourage school attendance but to also address the issue of malnutrition. The beauty of the Center is that it’s a semi-permanent structure that can be moved to different locations where there may be school children in need. Since the Center was formed, over nine million students from 54,619 schools have benefited from the program.

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Community Transitional School aims to provide academic support and stability

Ellen Clarke

January 25, 2023 |

Street Roots |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Community Transitional School, a nonprofit school serving students experiencing poverty and homelessness, emphasizes peer support, personalized learning, and holistic services to help reduce stigma and help students succeed academically.

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Diversion of UBE Funds impedes delivery of quality education in Nigeria, but HDI devises a means to hold state government accountable

Blessing Oladunjoye Samuel Ajayi

January 25, 2023 |

BONews |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Igbo Elejo, Lagos State

Human Development Initiatives trains community members to monitor school infrastructure projects eligible for government education funding and gather information to present to the state board when projects are not completed. As a result of the community tracking efforts, several schools have received significant upgrades.

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