2012 Charter School Leadership 
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
She dreamed of attending a historically black school out of state, maybe Spelman College or Clark Atlanta University.1 She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised.
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.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 16, 2016
“It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. 75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex,” according to a 2012 survey. These new tasks were added.
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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