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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. The third graders juggled the books as they traversed a courtyard ringed by adobe houses-turned-classrooms, with teacher Paul Chavarria trailing them.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Rural schools join forces to make college the rule rather than the exception

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“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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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

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If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. It’s better than it was.”.

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The rural school district Obama fought to save

The Hechinger Report

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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Colleges come under closer scrutiny for holding transcripts hostage over unpaid bills

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Gabrieli, who is also a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wondered aloud why entire transcripts are being withheld if students owe money only for a single course or a semester, or for library fines or parking tickets. And a coalition of advocacy groups in New York is pushing for legislation there like California’s.

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School clubs for gay students move underground after Kentucky’s anti-LGBTQ law goes into effect

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For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy.

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