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  • Green Upgrade: How California Is Pioneering ‘Energy Justice'

    July 30, 2018 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Boasting one of the top five largest greenhouse gas cap-and-trade programs that has raised over $6.5 billion, California is leading the way in financially successful renewable energy initiatives. One of the state's more recent projects now aims to allocate a percentage of those funds to bringing renewable energy resources to lower socioeconomic communities.

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  • How to Win Elections in a System 'Not Set Up for Us'

    July 30, 2018 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    120 people attended the second annual Black Campaign School, a training program created by the Collective PAC, a progressive political action committee that is trying to get more black candidates into office. The Collective also trains and recruits candidates. In 2016 the Collective backed five candidates, four won. “It was the kicking-off point to say we want to bring folks together on the local, state, and federal level to share and learn, build a community, and hopefully help folks win.”

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  • Go Home, South Korea Tells Workers, as Stress Takes Its Toll

    July 28, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    To change its culture of overwork, South Korea passed a law capping the workweek at 52 hours for many employees. The move follows the introduction of the five-day workweek in 2004. Young people are especially supportive of the changes, but some issues remain unclear such as how to record the hours required for business trips and entertaining clients, as well as how to prevent bosses from giving their employees work to do from home.

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  • Indiana's free pre-K: Adored by parents, beset with growing pains

    July 26, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Since 2014, low-income parents who enroll their children in Indiana's state grant program, On My Way Pre-K, have watched their students gain important literacy skills and self-confidence. However, only four percent of the state's qualifying four year olds currently participate in the initiative. Teachers are now brainstorming strategies to eliminate barriers to parents applying for the funding.

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  • Together, Parents Boost Their Children's Early Learning

    July 24, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    In an effort to improve kindergarten readiness, First Teacher, a parent-driven movement and non-profit, provides support and instruction to parents in several of Boston's low-income neighborhoods. The organization "aims to upend the traditional power dynamic with a bottom-up model in which parents, rather than institutions, take the lead" and reverse the effects of the "well-intentioned efforts that [that] leave parents of color feeling scrutinized, judged and powerless."

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  • Drive Against Gerrymandering Finds New Life in Ballot Initiatives

    July 23, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Public opinion is turning against gerrymandering faster than the Supreme Court. Five states are holding ballot measures on the issue spurred ahead by tens of thousands of citizen’s signatures, and political uncertainty is pushing legislators themselves to get behind apolitical redistricting commissions.

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  • Girls-Only Trade Classes Are Becoming More Popular—and They're Upending Gender Stereotypes

    July 20, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Schools across the U.S. have started offering girls-only auto trade classes as a way to encourage more females to participate in the often male-dominated vocational courses. Brenda Iasevoli writes "Shop class, it seems, is a new path to female empowerment." The classes also help to address the shortage of skilled workers in the auto repair, construction, and welding industries.

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  • Vienna's Affordable Housing Paradise

    July 19, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    Unlike America’s struggle to provide high-quality affordable housing in sufficient quantities, Vienna has achieved an affordable housing system worthy of envy. The government-subsidized housing projects in Vienna need to meet certain design and sustainability requirements, and a competitive design process leads to quality buildings. An estimated 62 percent of citizens in Vienna live in some form of social housing, the European name for public housing. The success of social housing in Vienna has also helped it remain “one of the most affordable major cities in the world.”

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  • A summer school program uses the arts to combat the achievement gap

    July 19, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    A Baltimore nonprofit uses arts programming to engage students in educational activities over the summer to combat learning loss. The director of differentiated learning for the district explains, "They don't even realize we're doing math and literacy instruction because we're having so much fun." Program administrators believe models like this are important in decreasing the persistent achievement gap.

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  • For Some Migrant Worker Children in College, a Free Sandwich Can Make All the Difference

    July 17, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    At California University State-Fresno, 64 percent of students enrolled in a migrant support program graduate within six years, compared with 56 percent of first-generation students at the university. The College Assistance Migrant Program offers students lessons on topics ranging from how to cook meals to how to interact with professors. Since 1972, CAMP has helped these children of migrant workers go to college and its strategies have improved the odds for first-generation students to graduate.

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