ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

Under SB 1159 , schools can recruit people without college degrees to their “school-based preparation programs” so long as candidates are enrolled in bachelor’s programs. Under existing law, Arizona districts and charter schools can create their own teacher-prep programs, with approval from the state board of education.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. UTLA has organized charter-school teachers and sued Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a local charter network, for union-busting.

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Charter School Public School High School Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Absolutely not,” said Megan Benay, senior national director of data systems and strategy at Great Oaks Charter Schools, a network of charter schools that focuses on preparing kids for college through personalized tutoring. “As Between the 2014-15 and 2017-18 school years, teacher retention grew from 60 to 90 percent.

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Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Arise Academy in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward is part of the city’s diffuse network of nearly 80 charter schools. NEW ORLEANS — Frank Rabalais had big plans for the school just around the corner from his house in Gentilly Terrace, a leafy neighborhood that is one the most racially and socioeconomically diverse corners of the city.

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Charter School Elementary School Public School Political Science 96

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. 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. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The school is one of 10 winners of the XQ: The Super School Project competition and will be awarded $10 million from the XQ Institute, an initiative designed to encourage schools to invent new ways to update and redesign America’s high schools, which it argues “remain frozen in time.”.

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High School Museum Charter School Tutoring 89

The Hechinger Report

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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K-12 Charter School Pedagogy Public School 105

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

AVID (which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination) is animated by a simple belief: Once children begin to see some success in school, their self-perceptions will shift so dramatically that they’ll commit to becoming stellar students — and this commitment will propel them through college.

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Middle School Leadership Charter School High School 111

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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K-12 Charter School Private School Elementary School 84

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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High School Charter School Advocacy Research 132

The Hechinger Report

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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Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 99

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. It may start small.

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Education Charter School Critical Thinking Cultures 82

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.

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Public School Leadership History Humanities 89

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. When the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) shut down, its 83 district-run schools and 33 charter schools served more than 49,000 students.

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High School K-12 Public School Library 125

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Since the integration order, white families — who still made up the majority of Longview’s population — had left the school district in droves for private schools, and white voters actively resisted paying to renovate the district’s schools. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools. “If

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Private School Elementary School Government Charter School 69

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2017

Ten families sued the Orleans Parish School Board and the state education department in 2010; the settlement brought both agencies under a consent decree in 2014. Critics have said charter schools cherry-pick students , and a third of principals surveyed admitted they tried to enroll high achievers.

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Teaching Charter School Leadership Education 58

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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Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

The research has sparked recent interest as some districts and charter schools experiment with new strategies to integrate schools without resorting to practices like the forced busing that spurred protests among both white and black parents in earlier decades.

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Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

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. They encountered mostly silence.

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

With their actions, they grabbed headlines in national papers, prodded Republican leadership to action, and in some cases won long overdue concessions in their contracts. However, BLS also cited in the same report that black workers continued to have a higher union membership rate in 2017 (12.6 In 2017, 7.2 percent) in 2017.

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Charter School Leadership Library Government 87

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.

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Leadership Charter School Psychology Public School 106

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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Charter School High School Professional Development Government 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The pair planned to ensure that the school would reflect the diversity of the Somerville Public Schools, in which about 42 percent of students are Latino, 10 percent are black, 37 percent are white and 43 percent come from low-income households. The plan pulled from best practices in school innovation from all over the country.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

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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High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 79

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. 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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Private School K-12 Economics Public School 124

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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High School Leadership Public School Charter School 117

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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Charter School Elementary School Public School Leadership 109

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

New Orleans schools that have embraced some element of restorative justice include Akili Academy, Langston Hughes Academy, Andrew Wilson, KIPP McDonogh 15, Edna Karr, Crescent Leadership Academy and Sci Academy. The Net has taken things a step further than most schools, however. Ostberg will be the director of both schools.

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High School K-12 Charter School Cultures 111

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.

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Elementary School Charter School K-12 High School 93

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. He views the recent opening of a charter school in the Mississippi Delta as a promising path forward. In recent years, the state has pushed “grow your own” efforts to shore up the local teaching force in rural areas.

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Private School High School Public School Charter School 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Loosed from state-imposed management in 2017, the district began scraping together money to begin fixing the schools in the worst condition, spending tens of millions of dollars each year to address a repair shortfall pegged at $1.5 Still, the return to local control helped Detroit’s public school system regain its footing.

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High School Public School Government Elementary School 117

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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Public School Charter School K-12 Advocacy 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Then, in mid-May 2023, a member of the school board told Grimes that it would not be renewing his contract, which was to end in June 2024. Related: English language teachers are scarce.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

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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Charter School Social Justice Museum Leadership 83

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

Since 2001, Cambridge, Massachusetts has used a “ controlled choice ” socioeconomic school assignment model. In Dallas, historic and ongoing residential segregation, concentrated poverty and competition from charter schools pushed the district to innovate. It’s transforming the perception of a large urban district.”.

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Charter School Economics K-12 Cultures 113

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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Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 107

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2020

The lack of presidential leadership contributes to the vast uncertainty we all face. Financial resources are positively correlated with student outcomes, according to 2017 study by the education think tank the Learning Policy Institute. This is not a numbers game — children’s livelihoods and futures are at stake.”.

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K-12 Charter School Education Policy Leadership 115