{"id":719,"date":"2025-08-14T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/?p=719"},"modified":"2025-08-14T20:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:12:54","slug":"cecpe-and-uw-edpol-ph-d-students-present-at-national-education-finance-academy-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/cecpe-and-uw-edpol-ph-d-students-present-at-national-education-finance-academy-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"CECPE and UW EdPOL Ph.D. Students Present at National Education Finance Academy Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April 2025, CECPE Phd student and Ballmer Phd Fellow Fanny Pacheco and UW EdPOL Phd students Ji Ho (Geo) Yang and Lu Xu presented research at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaledfinance.com\/uploads\/1\/5\/0\/1\/150144130\/2025_nefa_program.pdf\">annual meeting<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaledfinance.com\/\">National Education Finance Academy<\/a> (NEFA) in Charlotte, NC. Fanny presented preliminary results of a study titled \u201cUnionization in the Early Childhood Education Workforce\u201d, which explores barriers to forming unions within early childhood settings. Geo presented his study, \u201cEducation and Race: The Cultural Schemas Behind School Resource Management,\u201d drawing on his dissertation research. Lu presented two studies examining the cost of college promise programs and patterns of teacher turnover among high school STEM teachers, also drawing from his dissertation research.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-get-certificates-scaled-e1755201740447-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A group of NEFA students stand in a row at the front of the room, holding certificates\" class=\"wp-image-727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-get-certificates-scaled-e1755201740447-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-get-certificates-scaled-e1755201740447-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-get-certificates-scaled-e1755201740447-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-get-certificates-scaled-e1755201740447-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-get-certificates-scaled-e1755201740447-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-get-certificates-scaled-e1755201740447-375x211.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-get-certificates-scaled-e1755201740447-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Graduate students including three University of Washington PhD students, Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, Fanny Pacheco, and Lu Xu, receive Certificates of Excellence at the annual meeting of the National Education Finance Academy in Charlotte, NC, April 2025.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"University of Washington PhD students and faculty stand in front of the Charlotte, NC skyline.\" class=\"wp-image-728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nefa_students-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">University of Washington PhD students and faculty stand in front of the Charlotte, NC skyline, April 2025, NEFA Conference. From left to right, Ji Ho (Geo) Yang, Fanny Pacheco, David Knight, and Lu Xu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2025, CECPE Phd student and Ballmer Phd Fellow Fanny Pacheco and UW EdPOL Phd students Ji Ho (Geo) Yang and Lu Xu presented research at the annual meeting of the National Education Finance Academy (NEFA) in Charlotte, NC. Fanny presented preliminary results of a study titled \u201cUnionization in the Early Childhood Education Workforce\u201d, which explores barriers to forming unions within early childhood settings. Geo presented his study, \u201cEducation and Race: The Cultural Schemas Behind School Resource Management,\u201d drawing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cecpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}