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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 Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Alyssa in her first-grade classroom at Mott Haven Academy Charter School, where she enrolled after moving in with a foster mother who lives near the South Bronx institution. and “What can you do to help make your school feel safe?”. Sasha Redlener slipped into a child-sized chair at a table beside first-grader Alyssa.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

It’s past time the DOE issued guidance, telling schools to leave black students’ hair alone. When 16-year-old twins Mya and Deanna Cook went to Mystic Valley Regional Charter School with braided hair extensions in 2017, the school issued several infractions to both of them and asked the black girls to step out of class.

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The Hechinger Report

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

MAY 29, 2020

Incoming freshmen listen to a more senior student at a University at Albany summer orientation program in 2017. Our students are out there floundering,” said Hypolite, who still advises graduating seniors at a charter school in Boston where she previously worked. Credit: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

In early spring 2017, a friend told him that Zion Lutheran School (where regular pre-K tuition is $6,410 per child annually) was accepting 4-year-olds through a state grant program that provides free tuition for low-income parents. In 2017-18, 35,458 students used vouchers to attend private or religious schools.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: If you don’t think transportation options matter, look at what happens when school systems don’t address their students’ mobility needs. Weekly Update.

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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.

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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. Related: These schools are opening their arms to special education students.

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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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era. Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2, At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies. Charles Lacy, Holmes County Central High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Decades of research, both about educational best practice and the way the human brain works, say these types of motivators are dangerous. Sarah McCaffrey, a 10th grader, appreciates the stark difference between The Met and her experience in middle school, “where it was just ‘Do this, this, this,’” she said. “I and another 100 abroad).

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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

JUNE 28, 2018

LaFleur wanted to give him time before he went back to his elementary school, Edward Hynes Charter School. At the meeting in December, a Recovery School District staffer mentioned that a specialized room was located in the same building. Brady started going there three times a week in December 2017. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Essex Tech’s MCAS scores have climbed steadily since the campus opened, and the vast majority of its students met or exceeded the state’s standards for basic proficiency in reading, math and science in 2017. Another 18 percent planned to attend two-year colleges, while 30 percent said they would enter the workforce, according to the school.

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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.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Dallas Independent School District is in the middle of a multiyear effort to rethink school discipline. In 2017 it banned suspensions for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. Sydney Chaffee, a ninth grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy, a charter school in Boston, already felt the toll in October.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Overdose deaths in the northwestern Pennsylvania county rose by 300 percent between 2015 and mid-2017. When asked in a survey about the monitoring and sanctioning of residential schools, the Pennsylvania Department of Education told Hechinger/HuffPost to contact the state Department of Human Services. After roughly a month, M.S.

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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. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

As part of the deal, they partnered with High Tech High, a San Diego-based charter school network and a national leader in project-based learning. School networks such as Big Picture Learning charter schools and the Catholic school network, Cristo Rey, have done real-world learning since the 1990s, for example.

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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.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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.

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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. School discipline, she said, has been handed to police, who make “welfare checks” on students who miss online classes.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: I also refused to send my child to nearby public schools, including charters, because they were overwhelmed by the high-stress, compulsory, mass standardized testing of children as young as eight years old. Private school seemed the only option, and a hugely expensive one.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. history course at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

A commitment to traditional public schools and to fighting the privatization of our schools. Motivation to tackle challenging issues, including school segregation, charter school accountability and transparency, and to support our highest-need schools. How is this fair and, specifically, how will you fix it?

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

Unsurprisingly, Walters, too, has advocated for displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom and also has backed the conversion of a private virtual Catholic school into a charter school; the Supreme Court plans to hear oral arguments on the case on April 30. It goes without saying that Walterss crusade is multifaceted.

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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 8, 2018

In addition, kids who are not in school need looking after, and parents who can’t afford a daycare provider may stay home from work, resulting in a loss of income. Related: COLUMN: Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement. The state determines city funding for schools in Maryland.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In past years, there have been other well-publicized cases of school-resource officers handcuffing children whose hands are too small for handcuffs, putting children small enough to require a booster seat in patrol cars and driving them to the police station. Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South.

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