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JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Economic uncertainty apparently has this side effect.) Fertility rates have continued to decline since, despite the economic recovery, and WICHE predicts the number of first graders will fall by more than 330,000 to 3.6 When schools close — forever. million in 2019. That’s a 8.5 percent decline from a peak of 3.9

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

According to EdBuild, a nonprofit focused on school finance issues, predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more in funding than districts that serve mostly students of color. Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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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

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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. This year there may be as few as 19.

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MAY 6, 2019

Related: School district secessions gather speed, new report shows. It also laid the groundwork for a robust market of goods and services designed to help families learn the “hidden curriculum” of school-choice policies and engage in choice behaviors that yield desired school assignments.

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JULY 16, 2019

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. Black-Owned Firms. Percentage Black-Owned. Underrepresentation Based on Education. million to 17.3

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AUGUST 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A bubble machine and a table lined with cookies and coloring books welcomed families coming for a midsummer meet-and-greet at Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning, a new charter school in the Carrollton neighborhood. It’s overseen by the state school board.). But the system has changed since Katrina.

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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. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Greater New Orleans Foundation report.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. Parents and teachers have been packing churches , school board rooms and legislative sessions in protest. From 2017 to 2019 , Mississippi had the highest jump in fourth grade reading scores in the nation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Schools’ transportation offerings have to be considered as part of the overall economic and workforce development strategy in the city. While it’s true that the rising cost of yellow school buses gnaw at the meat of school budgets, schools in New Orleans sneakily use it as an excuse to not provide bus service.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Jacob Phillips, Nome Public Schools’ director of technology, stands at the site on the edge of town where Quintillion’s new fiber-optic cable is buried. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million. Related: Federal penny pinchers keeping rural schools from the internet.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

Nationally, black students who have the same family income as white students are much less likely to graduate from high school. Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School. The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. It’s like a legal segregation.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It I thought, ‘This feels like what a New Orleans school should feel like.’”. As is, the school’s demographic mix is dominated by students of color and by children living in poverty.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The performance of minority students on standardized tests at Ridgeview historically has lagged behind that of white students, according to staff, who note that black and Hispanic students are much more likely to come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Ideally, their high school graduates will be able to handle college-level work or step right into a good-paying job.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. The region also includes districts in both Missouri and Kansas, with schools using different curriculums and standards across the state line. Judges granted an average of 25 evictions per business day.

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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. When he wasn’t there, the students would ask, ‘Where were you?’” Black students who have a black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate high school and go to college.

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APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. The academic cost is not equally shared.

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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. In 2017, more than $20 million was allotted for pay raises to these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Within a single generation, his family has staked a claim to social and economic opportunities often viewed as out of reach in low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods. In West Philadelphia, one of the poorest areas in that city, a five-year, $30 million Promise Neighborhood grant went into effect in 2017.

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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. One teacher quit her job on the second day of an anti-racism training session that Gaines hosted at The City School. Gaines is willing to help other schools have these conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2019

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos put out the department’s 2019 budget, Democrats who support charter schools found themselves in an awkward political situation. million the Department of Education had allocated for the Special Olympics, but she somehow found room in the budget to increase charter school funding by $60 million.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

On June 1, the TEA took over Houston’s school district, removing the superintendent and elected board. Critics say it’s an effort by a Republican governor to impose his preferred policies, including more charter schools, on the state’s largest city, whose mayor is a Democrat and whose population is two-thirds Black or Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

In recent years, there’s been a surge in new Montessori schools in the United States, fueled, in part, by new state laws that are expanding the numbers of publicly funded, but privately run charter schools. The results are mixed: promising for preschool, not so promising for older students in high school.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

There are many ways a school district can provide choice and autonomy (with or without charter schools and vouchers). A 2017 report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute summarized findings from national and international studies that showed limited improvements at best from voucher programs.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. She resorted to an English major and returned to Holmes County in the summer of 2017 with her bachelor’s degree. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Sparks, one of San Antonio Independent School District’s “network principals,” has been given more than $1 million in grants to replicate Lamar’s successes at Bowden, part of a larger effort to overhaul low-performing schools and boost falling enrollment across this inner-city district with 92 schools and about 49,000 students.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

School leaders, including those in Detroit, believe a new wave of federal money for school construction can address those disparities. Some iterations of President Joe Biden’s economic plan have included the Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act, which would dole out $130 billion to repair schools over the next decade.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Capital City Public Charter School students doing field work. BOSTON — In 1963, Greg Farrell, an assistant dean of admissions at Princeton University, learned that an organization rooted in the teachings of a German educator was about to launch a wilderness training school in Colorado. “I Photo: EL Education.

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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.

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JULY 2, 2018

I am a white father who spends two hours on the New York City subway every day with my 10-year-old so he can attend an underfunded, desegregated public elementary school with a majority of black and Latino students and a majority of economically disadvantaged students. Private school seemed the only option, and a hugely expensive one.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In the summer, my child also attends a teacher-training lab school that is part of a public university in Finland, a nation ranked No. 1 in childhood education in the world by both UNICEF and the World Economic Forum. and one of the largest, most influential and most racially and economically segregated systems in the world.

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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. Schools will improve when we remove racist policies and practices that throttle educational and economic growth and invest instead in black communities and people.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

According to a 2017 report on teacher diversity by the Albert Shanker Institute, a think tank focused on democracy and education, minority teachers are more motivated to work with minority students in extremely segregated schools. According to the last Census count in 2017, the black population in D.C.

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