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JUNE 1, 2023

The chart compares racial and ethnic makeup of the residents within each school district (not only students) from 2009 to 2021. We selected this timeframe because each year actually represents the tailend of five-year data estimates, with data gathered from 2005-2009 and the newest from 2017-2021. Census Bureau.

Professional Development 113

Professional Development Charter School Private School Public School 113

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MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives. “I

Charter School 106

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

The business owners who employ many of the farmworkers here built the $29 million campus in 2017. The charter school, which serves kindergarten through eighth graders, is the second in a chain started by Lynda Resnick and her husband, Stewart. Many students’ parents never finished high school. This is my legacy.”.

Charter School 96

Charter School K-12 High School Private School 96

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. You’re taught really about cultural competencies.

Charter School 111

Charter School Tradition Public School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. It’s past time the DOE issued guidance, telling schools to leave black students’ hair alone.

Charter School 110

Charter School Human Rights Government High School 110

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Twice a week Ricky Carmona, 16, leaves his La Verne home to attend school in makeshift classrooms a few doors down from the Boot Barn at a nearby strip mall. Less than a week after the suspension, Stephanie Carmona, Ricky’s aunt and guardian, received a letter: The principal had recommended Ricky for an “involuntary transfer” out of Bonita.

K-12 144

K-12 Tradition Charter School High School 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work. Trade Industry.

Charter School 105

Charter School Advocacy Economics Government 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

Social Studies 100

Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 100

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Republican Senatorial candidate Roy Moore waits to be introduced to speak about the race against his Democratic opponent Doug on December 12, 2017 in Montgomery, Alabama. Related: Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Sign up for our newsletter.

Education 83

Education Charter School Critical Thinking Cultures 83

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Related: These schools are opening their arms to special education students.

Charter School 102

Charter School Economics Public School Teaching 102

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. While seat-time schooling is fiercely opposed by reformers, it is backed by state and federal law.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A 2017 study by the Houston Independent School District, for example, found that students participating in AVID in 2015-16 enrolled in higher-level courses and received higher scores on AP exams and on standardized tests than those who did not. I think that kind of change in thinking has happened at the school in recent years.”.

Middle School 111

Middle School Leadership Charter School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. Parents and advocates have also called for more teachers who can relate culturally to black New Orleans children and make connections with the communities they serve.

Elementary School 109

Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 109

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises.

High School 56

High School Charter School Public School Cultures 56

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

has about 9 million students who attend schools in communities of fewer than 25,000 people, and more than 25 percent of U.S. schools are considered rural, according to a 2017 report from the Rural School and Community Trust. It was a difficult job for me because I’m a face-to-face person.

High School 111

High School Charter School Library Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

I thought, ‘This feels like what a New Orleans school should feel like.’”. Fast-forward to 2017, and Plessy still prides itself on being one of just a handful of schools in the city that has purposefully sought to integrate its student body. Interest in the school was also affected by its location in a dangerous neighborhood.

Economics 75

Economics Charter School Public School Heritage 75

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

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. When the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) shut down, its 83 district-run schools and 33 charter schools served more than 49,000 students.

High School 125

High School K-12 Public School Library 125

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Students are referred by residential drug-treatment programs, school districts, or parents desperate for help. Once in, the hope is that a culture of “positive peer pressure” will help teens stay sober. ” Others blame low enrollments on the way recovery schools handle treatment. Here’s how to help them.

High School 84

High School Charter School Middle School Public School 84

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It’s the first time the district has opened its own school since Hurricane Katrina swept through the city nearly two decades ago. The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase , came together in just a handful of months. Charter schools receive public funding, but are independently run.

Tradition 143

Tradition Charter School Public School High School 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. Related: Former educators answer call to return to school.

Charter School 104

Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Kwame Owusu-Kesse, the CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone, adjusts the uniform of an eighth grader at the organization’s Promise Academy I charter school in Harlem in 2018. In West Philadelphia, one of the poorest areas in that city, a five-year, $30 million Promise Neighborhood grant went into effect in 2017.

Charter School 104

Charter School Economics High School Project-Based Learning 104

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Numbers improved this school year, with 111 of 290 (38 percent) students chronically absent as of mid-May, according to Sequoia Union High School District data. Note: Figures include charter schools. percent) during the 2018-19 school year to 846 out of 1,637 students (51.7 percent) in 2021-22. percent) in 2021-22.

High School 141

High School Charter School Cultures Elementary School 141

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

That’s why he’s launching Rooted School, a high school that plans to train students to enter jobs in fields like 3D printing, software development and programming right after graduation. The launch date was pushed back to August 2017 as he sought more private funding to supplement the public school funding stream all charters receive.

Charter School 97

Charter School Cultures High School Public School 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

It’s an idyllic place — a “cloistered community” people used to describe as “tightknit,” says Michael Chen, the current head of the school. Alma White, for whom the school was named, was a notorious racist and xenophobe with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Gaines is willing to help other schools have these conversations. Hard it is.

Private School 125

Private School K-12 Economics Public School 125

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. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A “I was tired of sitting back so that white people could feel comfortable.”.

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

New Orleans police officers set up barricades at the Jefferson Davis monument on May 4, 2017 in New Orleans, Loiusiana. But living tributes to white supremacy are still among us: racist teachers and schools with discriminatory policies are hurting black children every day. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

Leadership 106

Leadership Charter School Psychology Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

The program allows some of North Carolina’s lowest-performing schools to have more flexibility like charter schools. Related: A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college. The principles of the model are similar to those that govern charter schools. We had a plan in mind,” she said.

Elementary School 94

Elementary School Charter School K-12 High School 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In some schools [student/teacher conflict] would come down to … ‘This white lady doesn’t like me,’ and a cultural disconnect, but in this school absolutely not.”. This sort of negotiation is a main reason the school’s size is kept small, at about 160 students. Ostberg will be the director of both schools.

High School 112

High School K-12 Charter School Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Christopher House, a nonprofit that runs a high-performing elementary charter school and a small network of public preschools in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, has infused parental support into its model. Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Charter School 110

Charter School Elementary School Public School Leadership 110

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In 2015, it created the Super School Project, a contest to distribute millions of dollars to proposals for innovative high schools. In 2017, it advanced its message through a celebrity-studded network TV special , featuring Tom Hanks and James Corden doing karaoke on a school bus.

High School 117

High School Leadership Public School Charter School 117

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.

Middle School 143

Middle School High School Elementary School History 143

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.

Public School 139

Public School Charter School K-12 Advocacy 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. A Cuban refugee herself, she led discussions with teachers on similarities between Hispanic and Southern culture. They love family.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren’t allowed to have the same kind of sports teams [these were] important inflection points for the federal government to get involved,” the new Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, said recently. Department of Education from 2013 to 2017.

Cultures 92

Cultures Education Middle School Charter School 92

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on February 23, 2017. Look no further than KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First and Success Academies.

Charter School 83

Charter School Social Justice Museum Leadership 83

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

Rowan University history professor William Carrigan has written that students are unfamiliar with Reconstruction because popular culture focuses on the Civil War — not the post-war era. The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. history course at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. “I

Teaching 108

Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 108

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. But what are they teaching here? Its just taken a while. Anything in the government does.

Education 105

Education Elementary School Government K-12 105