The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Half a million, or about one in four, show up on campuses each fall not ready to take college courses in math or English, according to the advocacy organization Education Reform Now. That’s a feat a surprising number of high school graduates fail to accomplish.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In 2014, a cash-strapped school district in rural northeast Kansas turned to its residents with a plea: Pay a little more in taxes annually so we can renovate classrooms, update the wiring and give students better spaces to learn. million to build a new K-8 facility failed by a margin of 62 percent to 38 percent. EFFINGHAM, Kan. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

What happened in our district should not have happened, but it did,” said John Brazeal, who joined the district as its chief financial officer in 2014. In one extreme case, a California district agreed to pay 12 percent interest on a $16.7 In a separate case, Kansas City-based George K. million in unnecessary interest payments.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. In 2014, the charter was awarded a coveted National Blue Ribbon from the U.S. At Lake Oconee Academy, 73 percent of students are white. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

In 2014, the state had the highest percentage of preterm births as well as the highest infant mortality rate. These programs “really change the future for the most vulnerable babies born into poverty,” said Sarah McGee, national director of advocacy at Nurse-Family Partnership.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. Participation in the federal lunch program is used to track student poverty rates. Photo: Tovin Lapan. Related: In 6 states, school districts with the neediest students get less money than the wealthiest. percentage points — from 51.2

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. In 2014-15, the charter school’s first year, some students went months without working on subjects they didn’t like.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Sanders, who is African-American, first presented the idea for a dual-language program at Houston to the District of Columbia Public Schools in 2014. The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” In 2014 he was resettled in the small town of Bath, Michigan, through a federal foster program for refugee children.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

These 12 students are among about 2,300 across the state who were held back in third grade this school year — out of 39,000 third graders who took the test — because they were unable to pass the statewide standardized reading test last year. That’s what the state has put in place. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Out of 14 scheduled visits, dating from October 2014 to June 2015, the hospital counted Jacob as a “no show” for nine of them. Grant Callen, president of “school choice” advocacy group Empower Mississippi, speaks before a crowd at the Capitiol at the beginning of National School Choice Week in February. I beg your pardon?”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance. In the California experiment, Robinson randomly assigned students in grades six through 12 to three groups: retrospective awards, prospective awards and no awards. Robinson, Jana Gallus, Monica G.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Its 2014-15 arrest rate of 1.5 By 2014, 30 percent of public schools had school resource officers, or SROs, the most common type of law enforcement on campuses. In the 2014-15 school year, the number of student arrests at Terry High School was more than triple that of the year before, increasing from 6 to 20. 06 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 27 percent of children in Louisiana lived below the poverty level in 2014. According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. Abdi was at the top of her class, and Collins had worked with about 200 students like her in a new virtual advising program by College Possible , a nonprofit founded in 2000.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

In late 2014, the federal departments of justice and education released a joint letter urging school officials to improve education in juvenile detention facilities. The two parties negotiated a settlement and consent decree, which lasted from 2010 to 2014, and allowed the city and school board to agree to changes without admission of guilt.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“In rural areas there’s often not the tax base you find in an urban or suburban school to fund additional programs,” said Lavina Grandon, co-founder and board president of Rural Community Alliance, a nonprofit school advocacy organization. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. Kate worked with one local group to develop a career plan and spent three weeks in Minnesota at a life skills program which her parents hoped would introduce her to the idea of being away from home and improve her self-advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 million in 2014. “We The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a nonprofit child advocacy and research organization, has been fighting for more financial support for relatives caring for children outside of the formal system for years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

GRANITE, Utah — On a recent winter afternoon, the scene inside Dobrila Hasic-Botic’s preschool classroom in Granite, Utah, seemed typical of a high-quality pre-K. In 2014, the state legislature took over Granite’s social impact debt from the local United Way branch, which was handling the financial transaction.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

State Board of Education spokesman Kevin Calbert said the 10 percent number was based on the improvement the state needed to make to meet federal No Child Left Behind standards, which required 100 percent proficiency by the year 2014. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Under a set of new standards adopted by the Vermont State Board of Education in 2014 , the class of 2020 will be eligible for graduation when they’ve demonstrated “evidence of proficiency” in the curriculum. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Dick” Riley for 16 years when he was U.S. education secretary and two-term governor. Republican Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In contrast, James K. Meanwhile, in “Mississippi: Portrait of an American State,” the chapter about the Civil Rights Movement lists 17 key figures students should know: 12 white men — a majority of them segregationists — four black men and one black woman. Neither are the laws they challenged , Mississippi civil rights activist T.R.M.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

In 2014, the U.S. Oil prices dropped in 2014, plunging Alaska into a financial crisis and shrinking state funding for school capital projects from an average of $300 million per year to $124 million. Department of Education estimated the total cost of needed repairs at $197 billion, or around $220 billion in 2021 dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Students who are learning English, for example, bring an extra 12 to 55 cents on the dollar. Each fall, some 80,000 New York City eighth-graders select from a dizzying array of more than 400 high schools, and rank their top choices; they can apply to up to 12.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

This process of seeking exemptions has accelerated since the Obama administration asserted in 2014 that transgender and “gender nonconforming” students were protected from discrimination under Title IX, according to Human Rights Campaign. Patty Murray, D-Wash., one of the lawmakers who demanded that the list be made public.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. While dual-language programs often stop after elementary school, the bilingual advantage stretches through students K-12 years and into their working lives. Related: Widen your perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students are all in a science and engineering program, one of 12 career tracks designed by the 21,878-student district that encompasses Greeley and nearby Evans, a small river town with a growing Hispanic population. They had been asked to fashion an advertising campaign for their school’s sports teams, the Wolverines.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2016

Absent were specific policy proposals about the K-12 education system. million in 2013 and 2014, according to the latest records. One who did speak about K-12 issues was Gov. Xavier Becerra of California praised Clinton for her past advocacy for children, and was among many who mentioned support for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Charitable contributions by individuals, foundations, bequests and corporations was $358 billion in 2014, according to the National Center for Charitable Contributions. Dorfman recalled that Robert Ross, president and CEO of The California Endowment (TCE) was skeptical of the value of advocacy and organizing work.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A recent Associated Press analysis of national school enrollment data found that “as of school year 2014-2015, more than 1,000 of the nation’s 6,747 charter schools had minority enrollment of at least 99 percent, and the number has been rising steadily.”. It is clear that segregation, and who gets a quality choice, matters.

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