The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it. In 2012, it became the first U.S. city to lower the voting age to 16 for local elections.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

High schoolers at NACA graduate at much higher rates and tend to outperform their peers in Albuquerque Public Schools — which authorizes the charter — and throughout New Mexico. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The median income is about $33,000 and almost a quarter of the population is considered to be living in poverty, a poverty that is concentrated in households sending children to the county’s public schools, where the vast majority of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Some in town think schools should use it more often.

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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.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2020

Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. See the complete list of episodes , which also are available on the Coronavirus Chronicles podcast channel. . Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect.”

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In New York City, the nation’s largest public school system, a $23 million initiative is underway to combat implicit bias, the unconscious attitudes formed about racial and cultural groups different from one’s own. And when the chance presented itself to lead Cambridge Street in 2012, he made his intentions clear. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The IT staff at Nome Public Schools would have strongly discouraged this kind of lesson just two years ago, lest it strain the bandwidth shared by the district’s 720 students and 100 staff members. 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

JULY 16, 2018

The point of the public program, as it was presented to voters in 2012, is to boost long-term educational outcomes and eventually improve the citywide workforce. Former mayor Julián Castro placed the initiative on the November 2012 ballot, where it passed with 54 percent of the vote.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

NEW YORK — The zone for Public School 67 was drawn exclusively around the sprawling Ingersoll public housing complex, but as children trudge into the building, they can see the tips of the gleaming glass luxury towers that are reshaping the skyline around them in downtown Brooklyn. Fourth-graders at P.S. 67 often work in groups.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Berry said that consistent leadership and high expectations helped the district improve under state control. A state takeover is looming for Jackson Public Schools. In New Jersey, Newark Public Schools was taken over by the state in 1995 and is now returning to local control.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. But for a traditional public school district, the breadth of its work to reduce the educational effects of poverty is extensive. Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. But for a traditional public school district, the breadth of its work to reduce the educational effects of poverty is extensive. Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

King-Morris, who is black, places her own racial identity low on the list of qualities that make her a good school leader. Instead, she cites her 12 years of teaching, her rigorous principal training through the nonprofit New Leaders program, her propensity to foster teacher leadership and her willingness to listen.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Ninety-eight percent of Greenville’s 5,300 public school students are black and 94 percent live in poverty. They called it “River City,” singled out half a century ago as a beacon of hope for school integration in the South. Resources are scarce; qualified teachers are hard to recruit and retain. Photo: Jacob Carroll.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Resnick and Duffy had spent countless hours shepherding this school through the political thickets that all new public schools face. Tonight, the school committee would cast its votes. Their school day would last from 10 a.m. And this high school would be diverse. Resnick had reason to be optimistic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Unusually for Buffalo’s public schools — where 20 percent of students are white and 46 percent are Black — about half of the fourth grade class was white. Nearly 60 percent of students in gifted education are white, according to the most recent federal data , compared to 50 percent of public school enrollment overall.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

The year-round system began gaining popularity in the 1980’s, according to David Hornak, executive director of the National Association for Year-Round Education and superintendent of Holt Public Schools, in Michigan. Garland Independent School District in North Texas voted in June to approve the year-round system for two years.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. school leaders said they’ve been taking for the past few years as they started their own efforts to rethink the city’s schools. Public Schools. In 2018, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The pace of their educational gains, the political leadership and styling of the women behind the Women’s March and Rep. Maxine Waters , the cultural impact of Oprah and Beyoncé as well as public intellectualism of Melissa Harris Perry, Janet Mock and Brittany Cooper can’t be compared to their black male counterparts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 For evidence of that, all people have to do is glance at their local public schools, said Murdock.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When New York City officials revamped the way public schools were funded more than a decade ago, they emphasized one goal above the others: Making school spending more equitable in the nation’s largest system. Since 2012, 13 of New York City’s most coveted high schools have received more than $100 million in additional funding.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. Parents know their kids’ only shot at escaping poverty is the county’s public schools. That year, 33 percent of the senior class left school before earning a diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent. Hicks and O’Brien worked to make sure Tessa could attend a local public school that would fit her needs. Her grandparents are vigilant about her school work. A lot of the people I know just couldn’t ? So they lost ’em.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 For evidence of that, all people have to do is glance at their local public schools, said Murdock.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Altogether, the ongoing impact of Covid-19, coupled with political turmoil at the local level, has likely added as many as 3,000 vacancies beyond normal attrition during the last and current school years in the approximately 13,500 public school districts in the U.S., Collins said. The new hire will be his fifth.

High School 145

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

This activity, part of a Yale-designed program to build students’ social skills, usually runs for at least 20 minutes each day in all 18 elementary schools in Highline Public Schools, a racially diverse district just south of Seattle. In 2012-13, 10.4 percent from 2012-13 to 2014-15. Progress was swift.

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Elementary School Middle School Civics Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government-funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice. This means that taxpayers are footing the bill for parents in private and religious schools.

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Social Justice Advocacy Public School Private School 90

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2016

In 2012, the U.S, ranked 35th among developed economies in pre-primary or primary school enrollment for 3- to 5-year-olds, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an international economic association. “I think we value our children less than other nations do,” said Arne Duncan, the former U.S.

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