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		<title>FIS Education Advocacy Blog Has Moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Families In Schools is pleased to announce the launching of our new website and  our new Blog! You will still find the latest issues and insights surrounding education advocacy, but now you will have access to even more resources and tools at your disposal to support your organizational and personal needs. Please visit us by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6438&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College Graduation Rates Are Stagnant Even as Enrollment Rises, a Study Finds (NY Times)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A report to be released on Tuesday by a group seeking to raise college graduation rates shows that despite decades of steadily climbing enrollment rates, the percentage of students making it to the finish line is barely budging. The group, Complete College America, is a nonprofit founded two years ago with financing from the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6433&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley has best success with black students in US (The Grio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One of the school districts with over 75 percent of its African-American student body graduating is located on the West Coast. Out of 271 African-American students who attended Berkeley High School, 205 graduated last year. That&#8217;s one of the highest African-American graduation rates in the country. The Berkeley Unified School District made closing the education [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6430&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California English Proficiency Test &#8216;Almost Guarantees&#8217; English Learner Classification, Study Shows (HuffingtonPost)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Most four- and five-year-olds who take an English proficiency exam before kindergarten are bound to fail the test, according to a new study. Taking the California English Language Development Test &#8220;almost guarantees&#8221; a student will be classified as an English learner, the University of California, Berekely&#8217;s Center for Latino Policy Research, study reports. Just 12 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6428&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Handbook on Family and Community Engagement (the Academic Development Institute and the Center on Innovation &amp; Improvement)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; Harvard Family Research Project&#8217;s Heather Weiss and M. Elena Lopez recently authored a chapter on using performance data to engage families in the new Handbook on Family and Community Engagement.  The chapter, &#8220;Making Data Matter in Family Engagement,&#8221; (page 22) explores how to make data accessible, meaningful, and actionable to families, and profiles examples [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6423&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effort launched to raise $200 million for L.A. public schools (LA Times)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy and Hollywood philanthropist Megan Chernin have launched an effort to raise $200 million over five years to benefit local public schools. The collaboration, in the works for several months, was announced in a letter signed by Deasy, Chernin and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The letter strikingly lists failures [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6421&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Republican Senators Alexander, Burr, Isakson, Kirk Introduce Four Bills To &#8216;Fix&#8217; No Child Left Behind&#8221; (HuffingtonPost)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Former U.S. education Secretary Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) announced Wednesday a plan to introduce new legislation to reauthorize the federal No Child Left Behind Act along with Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). Their bills would &#8220;fix&#8221; NCLB by strengthening state accountability systems, improving teacher and principal professional development [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6418&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Throwing the book at school libraries (LA Times)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The school district is dumping 227 of its 430 elementary school library aides and cutting the hours of another 193 aides in half. Welcome back to school, kids. At Burton Elementary in Panorama City on Tuesday morning, library aide Mary Bates was wondering whether to fight, pack up her belongings for a transfer to her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6413&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Under plan, UC tuition could rise by 16% a year (SF Gate)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The University of California would raise student tuition by at least 8 percent &#8211; or as much as 16 percent &#8211; every year through 2016 under a plan that UC leaders will propose to the regents Thursday in San Francisco. Basic tuition could top $22,000 in just four years, not including other mandatory fees, books, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6411&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional Budget Action for Fiscal Year 2012 and its Impact on Education Funding (New American Foundation)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the New America Foundation&#8217;s Federal Education Budget Project released a new issue report that explains recent congressional action to set limits for appropriations spending for fiscal year 2012, and its impacts and challenges on education programs for the coming year. To read the full brief by New American Foundation, Click Here<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationadvocacy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8258398&amp;post=6407&amp;subd=educationadvocacy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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