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  • Denver students benefited from 11 years of reforms, new study shows

    December 13, 2022 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Reforms that improved learning at Denver schools included easier paperwork for school of choice applications, an increased number of charter schools, and the closing of schools with low test scores.

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  • Colorado community colleges doubled their graduation rate by better meeting student needs

    December 13, 2022 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Community colleges in Colorado increased graduation rates by reforming remedial class programs, making sure students' food and housing needs are met, and improving academic advising.

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  • Community programs are a true alternative for asylum-seekers

    December 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Community-based services provided by nonprofits — which include legal representation, housing, referrals for medical services, English language classes, and assistance with obtaining identity documents — have emerged as alternatives to ICE-based detention centers to help address the needs of immigrants and asylum seekers. Organizations like the Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants provide food, housing, and case management support for asylum seekers, both individuals and entire families.

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  • Cities Take on a New Front in the Climate Battle: Meat Eating

    December 13, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: England, Hayward Heath

    A grassroots campaign to encourage more environmentally sustainable diets called the Plant Based Treaty is picking up support across the globe. Pledgers make their own decisions on how to best take action.

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  • Treating Farmworkers on Their Terms

    December 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Salinas, California

    Community health clinics provide a space for indigenous people to access both traditional and nontraditional medicine as there’s a significant disconnect between indigenous communities and modern healthcare institutions. These community clinics increase healthcare access for indigenous communities and present care in an easily accessible way by taking language and cultural barriers into consideration.

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  • The Working Approach, This Not-For-Profit Is Changing Out-of-School Incidence in Northern Nigeria

    December 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    Girlsforhealth helps girls interested in furthering their education who are unable to access a nursing education, pays for their school, and provides essentials and a monthly stipend. At the end of their education, the girls are employed at a workplace back in their communities to fill staff shortages.

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  • Rising death rate: group takes fight against malaria to high-burdened rural Nigerian communities

    December 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Danja, Katsina

    To help address rising death rates caused by malaria, the Society for Family Health distributes insecticide nets to residents in rural communities for free and educates them on the importance of using them to protect against malaria-causing mosquito bites. The group has distributed 122.5 million nets between 2009 and 2021 and also provides diagnostic testing for malaria and advocates for more investing from government officials to address the disease.

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  • As climate changes, Mekong farmers try floating rice

    December 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, An Giang

    Researchers at the Climate Change Institute at An Giang University are working with farmers in Vietnam to popularize a better-tasting, more resilient strain of traditional floating rice to help them adapt to flooding and climate change.

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  • Utah offers "free college for all" to juveniles behind bars

    December 12, 2022 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Utah’s Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth program provides free college-level courses for credit to help young people who are incarcerated get college-ready. Those who do not pass the screening test to take college-level classes can take classes for high school credit instead.

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  • The City That Kicked Cops Out of Schools and Tried Restorative Practices Instead

    December 12, 2022 |

    In These Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Des Moines, Iowa

    Theodore Roosevelt Highschool in Des Moines, Iowa, transitioned from employing armed school resource officers to a restorative practices team to prevent and mediate violence with proactive support instead of immediate punishment.

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