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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. Shawn Clemons, director of accountability at Hickory Public Schools. It sounds complicated because it is.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

There was some concern that school districts could mistakenly be reclassified as 100 percent low income overnight. New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. Some school buildings don’t have many poor kids in them. percent under the new system.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

In that role, she visited schools around the city and was shocked by the disparities in school building facilities and resources, she said. Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Congress has failed to fully fund the Title I grant program, which provides funding to low-income schools and districts — the schools black and brown students attend — and helps fill gaps created by inequitable school financing systems. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In the Austin Independent School District in Texas, administrators recognize that same value for their native Spanish speakers who enter the public schools without English fluency. In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year. Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. Credit: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report New York state allows students to be suspended for up to 180 days — an entire school year. That’s not what happens.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. From 2017 to 2019 , Mississippi had the highest jump in fourth grade reading scores in the nation. Melissa Knapp, Harpeth Valley Elementary’s literacy coach, observes a first grade class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community. Warren’s plan, A Great Public School Education for Every Student , is one of the most comprehensive education policy proposals by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen.

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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. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Unfortunately, school cupboards across the country are bare — or at least underfunded. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. There are bigger budgetary issues behind school supply drives. Get out of the line to buy school supplies and get in line to demand the state fully fund public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

The average wage for preschool teachers who are not employed by a public school system is $13.98 The only preschool teachers who make what could be considered a middle-class wage are those employed by public schools. Public school preschool teachers make an average hourly wage of $24.06 or $50,040 a year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

This was clearly no ordinary public school. A driveway circling a landscaped pond led them to the school’s main hall. Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school.

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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. Black and Latino children experience homelessness at disproportionate rates, Public Integrity’s analysis showed. The academic cost is not equally shared.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. There have been highly publicized problems in some districts that have adopted the program. But at Rhodes, Christie doesn’t hear complaints like that.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

The advocates, who recently testified in Austin before the Texas Commission on Public School Finance to make their case for more pre-K funding, came armed with copious data showing that kids who start early see immediate and lasting benefits. Pre-K advocates across the state are also aware of those benefits.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016. Fifty-one percent of those who graduate go on to college , according to the Youth Development Institute of Puerto Rico, compared to 67 percent of suburban American high school graduates and 63 percent of rural and urban ones.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. The E-rate program to connect schools with the web and more technology has grown to just under $4 billion, helping many rural schools. Photo: Alan Richard. DILLON, S.C. —

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Zambia, education in Catholic versus secular primary schools decreases support for progressive gender attitudes. Across Latin America, citizens who attend private versus public schools have less support for the social contract.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The push for equity among PTAs in those cities hit sometimes fierce resistance before advocates found ways to calm fears that wealthy parents might disinvest from — or leave — public schools. Research suggests the practice has no significant impact on overall giving to schools.). Less than a quarter of public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. That was the case with Santiago’s son.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In the coming year, federal pandemic funds — which the city has leaned on to shore up public school budgets and other services — are drying up, even as the city says it expects to spend billions to manage an influx of migrants from the southern border. million since 2017 on firms that lobby city and state officials.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While the county is about 16 percent white and 82 percent black, the public schools are nearly all black. Fewer than 30 white students are enrolled in the entire district, a steep decline from the fall of 1966, when about 6,000 black students and 1,000 white students attended the county’s schools. still serves students today.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard.

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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. Early in the summer of 2021, she started a job with a company working to build a new social studies curriculum for public schools and districts. “My

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

According to the most recent data available, teachers and school staff send thousands of classrooms’ worth of students to the police each school year. In 2017-18, school districts reported referring at least 221,000 students to law enforcement, with nearly two-thirds of those referrals for students of color.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. When she left, she took a job as a consultant for Microsoft, speaking to schools and training staff.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2025

Teachers unions, parents groups and organizations advocating for the separation of church and state have said that rulings in favor of the plaintiffs could open the door for all types of religious programs to become part of public schooling and give parents veto rights on what is taught. percent of all public school students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But filling those gaps, he said, could help if poor air quality from wildfires keeps kids from going to school. The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. The school district, NOLA Public Schools, provided some Chromebooks and hotspots that the school operator distributed to families.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 28, 2025

Were really disappointed, particularly given that theres this focus on making sure kids are healthy, making America healthy, said Diane Pratt-Heavener with the School Nutrition Association, a 50,000-member advocacy group that supports K-12 school meal programs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. That last rejection in spring 2017 was the last straw for Thorne. Why didn’t you tell us?

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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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