2019 Heritage Tradition 
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 16, 2021
It was a moment she’d been waiting for since her freshman year — not just to graduate from high school, but also to wear her traditional Yup’ik headdress and mukluks. That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. In September 2019, the school office said she had retired. It would, first and last, be better than the schools the area already had.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 10, 2024
In California, only 10 percent of English learners were chronically absent in 2019. Since before the pandemic, the rate of chronically absent English language learners more than doubled, from 16 percent in 2019 to 36 percent in 2022. By 2022, the rate had more than tripled to 34 percent.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2024
A Hispanic Heritage Month event that Grimes started in Russellville High School has now grown into a big districtwide celebration , where students learn about different cultures and traditions, perform dances, read celebrated authors and research historical figures. And it hasn’t been easy to sustain all of the gains.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 28, 2021
Ríos, the school’s librarian, holds a paper flower made by students for a Mexican heritage celebration. Only 53 percent of women in their 20s who gave birth in their teens hold a traditional high school diploma, compared to 90 percent of women who didn’t, according to Child Trends , a research organization focused on young people.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 30, 2020
No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. In addition to its growing dual language program, the district checks all the more traditional boxes on how to help students who speak a language other than English at home. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.
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