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Kennedy Discusses Benefits of Expanded Learning Time and the Massachusetts Model Washington, D.C. Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy discussed the critical importance of improving student performance and closing the achievement gaps for all students through expanding time for learning and enrichment at the Center for…

By Gara LaMarche.  In March, I was honored to watch President Obama's bill signing for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with a group of labor leaders and reform activists. Around me were advocates who had worked for months -- in some cases decades…

In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. What does the bill actually do? In this brief video highlight from The Atlantic Philanthropies' recent event, “The Historic Passage of Health Care Reform,” Judy Feder of Georgetown University and…

The Washington Post's WONKblog interviewed Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager and chief executive of Health Care for America Now (HCAN), an Atlantic grantee, on its central role in passing health care reform in the United States. Kirsch told the Post it was the "bold" decision by…

Original Source Health Care for America Now and the Center for Community Change are Atlantic grantees. In the last few weeks, a variety of groups have been more forthright in expressing criticisms of the Obama administration now that it is more than half a year…

Paradigm-shifting elections don't shift paradigms if there aren't corresponding social movements for change.By VIVIEN LABATON AND GARA LAMARCHE  One thing we now know with certainty, more than two years into Barack Obama's presidency, is that change is an uphill battle. We're already defending hard-won gains on health care…

By Edward Graham and Helen YoshidaPhoto: Getty ImagesAs schools around the country have tightened their disciplinary policies to curtail the possibility of school violence, some experts caution that these measures are doing more harm than good.Daniel Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies…

The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…

By Amy Celep & Sara BrennerOn the heels of midterm elections, one debate we can anticipate is whether the Latino vote mattered—that is, whether the participation of Latinos significantly influenced election results. According to Pew Research Center, Latinos—for the first time—made up 11 percent of eligible…

Original Source Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager for Health Care for America Now, takes nothing for granted. On the very day last week that President Barack Obama released his budget proposal, which includes a $634 billion reserve fund to overhaul the nation’s health care system, Kirsch…