The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Instead of expecting educators to follow a plan handed down from headquarters, charter school organizations like Aspire Public Schools empowered their best educators by encouraging them to choose a field of independent study, much like how a college professor would select a topic for a sabbatical.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Third grade math teacher Karen Demore says her students at New Frontiers Charter School need to understand math as a journey, not just a series of right or wrong answers. Karen Demore, third grade math teacher at New Frontiers Charter School in San Antonio, Texas. Photo: Sarah Garland. SAN ANTONIO — Karen Demore booms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The cries for reform won out, leading to the dismantling of New Orleans’ school system, eventually resulting in a nearly all-charter school district. The resources to develop a comprehensive curriculum that aligns with those [new standards] exceeds the capacity of a single charter or group,” Altman said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At Capital City Public Charter School, eighth grader Nia Reese delivers a 40-minute presentation aimed at convincing panelists that she is prepared to move on to the campus’ high school. Capital City Public Charter School serves students throughout the Washington, D.C. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2016

Virtual charter schools can give students who are falling behind in traditional schools a chance to find success in an alternative learning environment. But can virtual charter schools fully replace the traditional face-to-face school experience? School is a lot more than just putting content up online.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

Between 2005 and 2012, a teacher-led approach to drilling down to analyze what was missing, called Strategic Inquiry, identified that students across New York City were lacking the writing strategies necessary to communicate complex ideas. Angel Rodriguez is the New York City Charter Schools’ ELL consortium manager.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

When she got to high school, nobody disabused the ace student of that notion. Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. A banner adorns a wall of Red Wing High, a rural school approximately 55 miles southeast of the Twin Cities with about 950 students across eighth through 12th grades.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

District and school takeovers can happen in a variety of ways , such as when a state disbands a school board and sends in an interim superintendent, as is the model in Mississippi. Other states allow the takeover of individual struggling schools. In 2012, the William Penn Foundation donated $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

And in New Orleans, the majority of the public schools are under the jurisdiction of the state, but charter companies make most of the educational decisions, a trend that was further accelerated after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

“I’ll say up front: I am not here to offer any hard-and-fast rules or directives,” said Secretary of Education John King in prepared remarks for the National Charter Schools Conference. As a former charter school executive, I experienced how parents and principals alike cut off real solutions at the pass.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

A March 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University showed that black teachers are more likely to have higher expectations for their black students; for example, white teachers were almost 40 percent less likely than their black counterparts to expect black students to finish high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

In 2012, the state department of education and the New Orleans Public Schools established Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) goals, which aimed to steer contracts to underrepresented groups, including black and women contractors. Clearly, the black population could have benefited from some of those construction jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

On Kentucky’s previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of “proficiency” or better in both reading and math. Middle and high school students’ scores also dropped. Graphic: Davin McHenry. The moral imperative.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. In 2012, 57 percent of ”minority” students (almost all African American) graduated from Avoyelles Parish high schools, lower than the percentage of adults with a diploma. In Avoyelles, these trends have become deeply entrenched.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

Today, because of the way the city’s new system of charter schools operates, students from any New Orleans neighborhood can choose to attend Carver. Carver alumni also rose up in the spring of 2012, when the Recovery School District opted to phase out Carver as a direct-run school and bring in operator Collegiate Academies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex,” according to a 2012 survey. A 2012 survey found 75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex.” Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Before, the state already had two voucher programs: the 2012 Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program, and in 2013, the Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship for Students with Speech-Language Impairments. As a result, he said, parents need legislation like the Special Needs Act.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

So will teachers, superintendents and charter school leaders get any attention from the bankers, techies and so-called thought leaders at this conference? billion since 2012. The “leading educators” sessions at the conference were among the most anticipated, according to an online poll ahead of time.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. million in 2012) from the federal Education Department.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Similarly, I said back in April 2012: Please realize that it doesn’t matter how many safeguards are put into place before retention occurs. Thinking about charter schools. And yet it is now enshrined into Iowa law, to be made operational (and, apparently, rationalized) by our Department of Education. [

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. In 2012, city officials became convinced that the school could not improve and began the process of shutting it down. It has roughly 225 students; 99 percent are low-income.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

It was geared to promoting school choice in all its forms mainly through grantees who advocated for it at the policy level. I was working in the trenches of the most confrontational aspect of education reform, trying to get laws passed to authorize vouchers, charter schools, tax-credits scholarships and education savings accounts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

“If they do go to school outside of Nome, or go to work outside of Nome, they’ve had some exposure to different cultures, different places.”. Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Its doors opened in January, 2012. Going back to their old school could hinder their progress. “My Independence Academy opened its doors in 2012, and is now one of five such schools in the state funded and overseen by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Photo: Austin Haeberle.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Philadelphia’s public schools were taken over by Pennsylvania in 2001, but test scores have dropped and the district has experienced debt. Other cities, like New Orleans and Memphis, have embraced takeover models that turn struggling schools over to charter school operators, but success is limited and inconsistent.

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Charter School Leadership Public School High School 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Board of Education mandated the end of segregated schooling, Mississippi’s children still largely attend schools identifiable by race. And for Mississippi’s black children, nearly half of whom live in poverty , that usually means being stuck in schools that are subpar.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Conventional wisdom among guidance counselors holds that students from high-poverty high schools may struggle at the nation’s elite colleges, so placing them in less competitive environments will give them a chance. He would come across students who’d impressed him as eighth graders and discover they were floundering in high school.

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High School Charter School Economics Critical Thinking 79

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Minnesota Department of Education, a charter school in South Carolina and school officials in California’s Napa Valley all received funding. It does not require a license for general education preschool teachers, and it did not establish preschool standards until 2012.

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Government Elementary School Charter School Advocacy 83

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies. In high schools such as ours, the future of learning is distance learning.”. Charles Lacy, Holmes County Central High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

It’s a good representation of what you see in the classroom,” says Jodalis Gonzalez, a senior at Boston Prep, a charter school in Hyde Park. science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) Academy in 2012, one of the first things he did was to start laying out plans for a room devoted to student data. Academy in Malden.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There, he tried to give people information about important education-related bills, including the bill that introduced Amendment 2, which would overturn the state’s constitutional restriction that prohibits using public funds for private and charter schools. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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Civics Education Government K-12 119

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone sat on the school committee, and he’d been the one to suggest they consider designing a new public school in the first place, back in 2012. Somerville schools superintendent Mary Skipper had been instrumental in keeping the approval process moving forward when prospects looked bleak.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Between 1993 and 2012 suicide rates doubled among black youngsters ages 5-11, while rates declined among white children in same age group, according to a 2015 article published in the academic journal JAMA Pediatrics. Schools may or may not be a part of the problem, but they most certainly have to be a part of the solution.

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