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3 weeks ago | 
tcf.org | Emily McGrath |Michelle Burris |Laura Gutierrez |Laura Gutiérrez |Alejandra Vazquez Baur
Imagine this:Thirteen-year-old children working the night shift cleaning the kill floors of meatpacking plants, their small hands barely able to hold the tools they are required to use. Working people putting in fifty-hour workweeks and getting paid for just a fraction of the hours they worked. Hardworking coal miners working underground, forced to travel miles in mines that haven’t had safety inspections.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Rosybell Maria |Chantal Hinds |Casey Stockstill
Here we go again. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to deport millions of immigrants as soon as he takes office. As of mid-November, he vowed to use the military to deliver on this promise, and for those states and cities so bold to defy his orders, he’ll cut their federal funding. All of it. What does this mean for schools?
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Casey Stockstill |Halley Potter |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Amber Villalobos
This profile is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding to serve diverse groups of children.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Chantal Hinds |Halley Potter |Jonathan Zabala |Alejandra Vazquez Baur
Earlier this year, the Heritage Foundation released Project 2025, a roadmap for a presidential administration to enact far-right policies. If they were to become reality, these proposed policies would have far-reaching effects for Americans, from restricting health care access to exploiting child labor to decreasing environmental protections. In early learning and K–12 education, the changes would also be dramatic, and would include shuttering the U. S.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Rosybell Maria |Maggie Marcus |Alejandra Vázquez BaurFellow
Luzia has been singing her whole life. She began writing music at the age of 8, when she lived in Angola. Looking back, she describes her first songs as “silly.” Now, after just two years in Maine, Luzia has begun performing in major competitions and events across the country, including in Washington, D.C. as part of a multinational girls chorus group.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Conor Williams |Maggie Marcus |Rosybell Maria
Meet Annie Connor. First thing in the morning, Ms. Annie co-teaches an Algebra class of both English learners (ELs) and non-ELs, all dressed in pajamas for the school’s Spirit Week. Heads are down completing the bell ringer on the board when Ms. Annie interrupts the silence to begin vocal exercises.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Jonathan Zabala |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Conor Williams |Chantal Hinds
Imagine stepping into a new school where everything feels unfamiliar—new language, new faces, new rules. For many newcomer students—immigrants or refugees in their first few years of U.S. schools—this is their daily reality. This transition can be overwhelming and isolating, often leading to feelings of anxiety, loneliness, and academic struggles. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With the right support and resources, newcomer students can thrive in their new environment.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Maggie Marcus |Margot Ngo |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Chantal Hinds
In education circles, it’s relatively common to hear English learners (ELs) touted as one of the fastest-growing student groups in public schools. And that’s true—there are at least 1.5 million more ELs in the United States now than there were in 2000. Over speak one of more than 400 non-English languages at home. This growth means that these high-potential students are in essentially every community now, being served by schools in a wide range of ways.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Tiara Moultrie |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Maggie Marcus |Jasmine Brann
TCF fellow and Next100 senior policy entrepreneur Chantal Hinds submitted a comment to the Rockefeller Institute of Government on September 4, 2024, to inform the institute’s study of New York State’s Foundation Aid Formula.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Stefan Lallinger |Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams |Alejandra Vazquez Baur
This spring marked the seventieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. For all of its shortcomings and still unfulfilled promises, Brown set off a wave of school desegregation and civil rights legislation and continues to serve as a cornerstone for educational equity.
