The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Some low-income prospective students now are working to help their families, said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America; others are seeing record unemployment rates and wondering whether there will be any jobs for them, even with degrees. “It’s going to affect them for a really long time.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Several times, the school issued a suspension and sent Curry’s granddaughter home.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

While seat-time schooling is fiercely opposed by reformers, it is backed by state and federal law. Northern Cass’s reforms rely on North Dakota’s 2017 decision to let districts apply for waivers from requirements such as hours of instruction. “I’d love to tell you we have every answer,” Steiner said, but “we’ve got a long way to go.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The gap is often stark: In 18 states, graduation rates for students who experienced homelessness lagged more than 20 percentage points behind the overall rate in both 2017 and 2018. Eventually, the two found housing outside the Temecula Valley Unified School District her son had attended for years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Our education system is completely racist.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. They also wanted school officials to send a clear message to the community that Lusher supported Black Lives Matter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

She resorted to an English major and returned to Holmes County in the summer of 2017 with her bachelor’s degree. Like 37 other states , Mississippi law allows the state to provide schools with capital funds, but legislators haven’t sent districts money to improve or replace buildings for years.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Having just turned 12 in the fall of 2017, Alan bubbled over with excitement ahead of his first rally at Deming Intermediate School in Deming, New Mexico, a small city near the Mexican border. In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. We wanted to deal with that first.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2025

Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Isidore of Seville Virtual Charter School should be allowed to exist as a public charter school in Oklahoma. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa had won approval for the charter school from the state charter board despite acknowledging that St.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

One Alabama town is trying to change that He didn’t have funds for a new soccer field, so he had the football field re-turfed, and students began playing in 2017. Many of Russellville’s Hispanic students had lobbied for a soccer program, which Grimes put in place in 2017. Related: English language teachers are scarce.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

On Presidents’ Day, February 20, 2017, approximately 35 people attended the Orleans Parish School Board Unification Town Hall sponsored by the Urban League of Greater New Orleans and Total Community Action. But lawsuits have pushed equity when independent schools were slow to act.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Earlier this year, Taheem witnessed a shooting as he was walking to school. And in the summer of 2017, Taheem’s 16-year-old sister, Naveha Gibbs, was shot and killed in a city a 20-minute drive to the north. At the time, the mayor told Newsweek that the local schools were to blame for the cycle of violence. spends less.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

A pre-K class at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Confronting employment discrimination will undoubtedly help address schools’ need to recruit more teachers of color. population in 2017 , than white Americans, who made up 64 percent of the adult population.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. As a university administrator who managed charter schools, I was told, “You have to share the sunny side of facts.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In 2017, six Havasupai families sued the federal government, alleging that the Bureau of Indian Education, which operates Havasupai Elementary and is housed within the Interior Department, deprived their children of their federal right to an education. (In The BIE and DOI, in June 2017, formally petitioned the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Nevertheless, many choice advocates support DeVos, including the Success Academy founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz , former Florida Governor Jeb Bush , a national charter advocacy organization and the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal , Chicago Tribune and Detroit News , among others. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Protestors demonstrate against President Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, on Capitol Hill on February 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. During her contentious hearing, DeVos made clear her preference for an education system that favors choice – including virtual charter schools with dismal track records.

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