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2022 ◽  
pp. 1175-1189
Author(s):  
Mónica Rodríguez-Castro ◽  
Spencer Salas ◽  
Jatnna Acosta

In metro Charlotte, North Carolina, dynamic newcomer Latinx communities have changed the demographics of K-8 education as the region has emerged as a new gateway for an influx of immigrants and migrants. Today, in what has come to be known as “the New Latino South,” K-12 teachers are eager to expand their knowledge base for working with this relatively new population. To that end, bilingual (Spanish/English) educators are increasingly tapped to serve as impromptu interpreters as monolingual administrators and teachers interact more frequently with Spanish dominant communities. Drawing from an in-depth interview sequence, the chapter narrates a Dominican-American's lived experience with simultaneous K-12-based interpreting as a K-12 student teacher, and a licensed early-grades educator. This chapter theorizes the layered emotional and professional advocacy of heritage-language bilingual school-based professionals and their agency in advancing access and equity to public resources with recommendations for policy and practice.


2021 ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
Julia Payson

This chapter concludes by considering the broader welfare implications of city lobbying. The ability to pay for professional advocacy represents a double-edged sword for cities. Lobbying provides an essential tool for local leaders seeking to amplify their voices in the complicated and often hostile world of state politics. This is true for progressive urban areas—but also for high-income suburbs. However, while some states have recently debated measures to restrict local government lobbying, this chapter concludes that these efforts would likely do more harm than good in the absence of reform to the lobbying industry more generally. Otherwise, the influence of corporations and PACs will continue to grow, while local officials would unfairly lose one of the key channels through which they are able to advocate for local interests in state politics.


2021 ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Mark R. Warren

Chapter 2 offers a new model for understanding the dynamic relationship between local community organizing and national movement building. It highlights the critical contributions of local organizing to building the participation and leadership of those most impacted by injustice and to create organizational forms capable of sustaining campaigns to win policy changes. At the same time, it reveals the limitations of local organizing to dismantle a system of racial inequity deeply embedded in national structures, policies, and consciousness. It considers the contributions of national movements like influencing federal policy and challenging racist stereotypes and narratives. However, they are typically too narrowly focused on federal policy and dominated by Washington-based professional advocacy groups. Instead, movements can be stronger when they seek to strengthen and spread local organizing, “nationalizing local struggles,” and when groups grounded in communities most impacted by injustice share power with professional advocates.


2021 ◽  
pp. 94-105
Author(s):  
Catherine Y. Chang ◽  
Ashlei Rabess

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Sweeney ◽  
Victoria E. Kress

Author(s):  
Peter Mallett ◽  
Andrew Thompson ◽  
Thomas Bourke

BackgroundIn the UK, the number of junior doctors completing foundation programme, and the number of trainees applying to paediatrics has been in decline in recent years. The NHS is at ‘breaking point’, exacerbated by workforce shortages, chronic underfunding, increasing service demand and poor job satisfaction within healthcare workers. Issues in recruitment and retention of paediatricians ‘threaten the safety of our children’s health’, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.AimTo explore what strategies have been described in the literature to enhance recruitment and retention in paediatrics.MethodsA scoping review methodology was conducted, employing a qualitative approach to review the literature. The studies included were English-language studies. 16 full-text articles were reviewed and analysed.Study findingsThere is a paucity of data in the literature that describes evidence-based approaches to enhancing retention and recruitment in paediatrics. The most important strategies employed to help are identified and grouped into six main themes. These include professional advocacy, workforce diversity, mentorship, improving working conditions, career flexibility and enhancing educational opportunities. The authors have created a ‘paediatric pipeline’ paradigm of ‘identify, engage, recruit, retain and champion’, which allow us to present these themes in a pragmatic way for paediatricians and policymakers.ConclusionsWhile some issues share similarities with other specialties in difficulty, much of the context and potential remedies within paediatrics are distinct. A strategic, multi-agency collaborative approach is required urgently to address the significant issues that face both paediatrics and the healthcare system.


Author(s):  
S. V. Yunoshev ◽  
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M. Yu. Zhirova ◽  

The paper considers the issue of the improvement of the defender’s procedural status in the current criminal procedure. The authors analyze the respective statements of the Statute of Criminal Procedure of 1864. The study states that one of the significant results of the Great judicial reform of Emperor Alexander II was the introduction of professional advocacy. However, the defender’s status established by the Statute distinguished itself by the unprecedented development, vesting a defender with powers absent in the previous legislation. The paper analyzes the particular procedural powers of a defender concerning an optimal model of their regulation. The study shows that, in general, the statements of the RF Code Criminal Procedure have moved so far forward compared to the similar Statute statements, especially concerning the access of a defender to the stage of a pre-trial investigation. However, it appears that to solve many problematic aspects of the current status of a defender, the experience of corresponding procedural regulation in the Statute can be a target to improve this status. In particular, the authors focus on the fact that, according to the Statute norms, a defender was less limited in the right to copy data and the materials of a criminal case. The study substantiates that a defender in the pre-revolutionary period had much more opportunities to offer evidence to a court; particularly, it concerned the proof of witness. According to the Statute statements, the parties were procedurally equal in the right to refer to special knowledge, which is absent in the current criminal procedure. The paper states that at the moment, the defender’s right to gather evidence has some significant gaps and limitations compared to the similar right during the term of the Statute.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Alden ◽  
Lynda Hill ◽  
Felecia Moore Banks ◽  
Ronan Connolly ◽  
Julius Ngwa

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