ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Most of the countrys 100 largest districts by enrollment have seen declines since the 2019-20 school year. The National Center for Education Statistics released its data for 2023-24 in December. It had about 76,800 students at the end of 2023-24.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

In Wisconsin, school choice has existed for decades, with expansive options that include vouchers for private schools, public charter schools and traditional public schools. And public support for school choice rests above satisfaction with the states public school system in some polling data.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Across the San Carlos Unified School District, 76 percent of students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, meaning they missed 10 percent or more of the school year. Velma Kitcheyan, a third grade teacher at Rice Intermediate School, instructs her students Tuesday, Aug. He was one of many.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

million public school students perform below NAEP Basic and struggle with fluency in reading connected text. Stanford University studies in 2021 and 2023 identified him as being among the top 2 percent of scientists in the world. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

Credit: Tamika Moore for The Hechinger Report The new diploma option also comes at a time when public perception of college is souring: Only 36 percent of U.S. Just 43 percent of Alabama high schoolers who graduated in 2023 enrolled in one of the states public colleges the following fall.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2023

That has not been our experience as parents and school committee membersin the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which is often singled out as an example of math success. The post OPINION: How San Francisco public schools got math instruction wrong appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Not any more.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2025

The youngest Zoomers, as theyre also known, are around 13 years old and still have years left in public school systems dealing with frequent upheavals due to federal-level uncertainty , politicization of essential services like libraries and ongoing challenges to helping students get on grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Financial constraints Justin Baeder, a former public school principal in Seattle who now conducts professional development for school leaders, posted a video commentary on X. His six-year term at the Department of Education began in 2023. This is some of what he had to say.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2023

#dpvils #sparkingjoy #thegrindneverstops pic.twitter.com/qCVL0DYvq5 — KCPS Central Middle (@KCPS_CentralMS) August 18, 2023 Our @KCPS_CentralHS students getting their new iPads, courtesy of @Verizon ’s Innovative Learning Schools initiative with @DigitalPromise ! Moore Middle School. Exciting news! A big shoutout to @dpvils ! ?

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

One former student who appreciates what he learned from Messick now serves on the school board for the district in which Messick teaches. In 2023, he returned the encouragement Messick had given him. He suggested she run for a vacancy on the Dublin City school board , the district in which Messick lives.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

million public school teachers are white, but over half of their students are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and mixed races. Public school teachers are overwhelmingly white but most students are not. Characteristics of Public School Teachers. Eighty percent of the nation’s 3.8

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Over two and a half days, district leaders explored how emerging technologies can support powerful learning, surfaced and shared innovative learnings and leadership practices, and helped us welcome the League of Innovative Schools 2022-2023 cohort. million students served over time. Check out the #DPLIS to see more of the action!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Credit: (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) The number of kindergartners in public school plunged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerned about the virus or wanting to avoid online school, hundreds of thousands of families delayed the start of school for their young children. school system. Wednesday, Nov. on Friday Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning losses. “At Elementary school students in grades two to six were making slow progress, and remained behind. children are academically and that merits coverage.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The racial and socioeconomic gaps in math are stark: Only 28 percent of Black students and 31 percent Hispanic students nationwide took advanced math in high school compared with 46 percent of white students, according to a 2023 report from EdTrust. Just 22 percent of low-income students took advanced math.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In some places, this now includes reshaping what “back-to-school” means, as districts attempt to schedule the academic year around extreme heat. Students at West Shores High School, in Salton City, California, walk through a courtyard between classes. Credit: Nichole Dobo/ The Hechinger Report Carrie A.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Or, perhaps high schools have watered down the content in math courses and students are genuinely mastering easier material. Source: ACT Research Report 2023 : Sanchez speculates that test optional admissions have elevated the importance of high school grades. The ACT analysis, published in August 2023 , covered almost 6.9

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

He then worked to pass a new mental health policy and improve student-to-counselor ratios and became president of the governing board in 2023. Shiva Rajbhandari was elected to the Boise School District Board of Trustees in 2022 while still a senior in high school. She’s also an advocate for the Green New Deal for public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

School districts sent out requests for proposals from online tutoring companies. million contract with the Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida, would be contingent upon student performance. Many schools didn’t want to wait and launched other interventions to help needy students sooner.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools? Since 2015, CS4All has worked diligently to ensure that all public school students in New York City learn computer science, emphasizing students who identify as girls, Black and LatinX.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. It was the pits,” she said and charter school advocates were “pissed.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Source: TNTP and Educators for Excellence (2023) “ So All Students Thrive: Rethinking Layoff Policy To Protect Teacher Diversity.” public school student population is less than half white. A more detailed list of teacher layoff laws by state is in the appendix.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Public school choice appeared to increase overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a study by three economists, “ Does School Ch o ice Increase Crime? circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Early in my mentoring career in public school, I made the mistake of approaching teacher development with a deficit mindset. Over a decade later in 2023, I was asked by three different groups to become their teacher mentor/coach. I went in believing teachers needed to be "fixed." I thought I wasn't cut out to be a coach.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Years ago, when Woodfin attended Union Public Schools from kindergarten through eighth grade, she sat in fairly homogenous classrooms. Woodfin recalled her peers as predominantly white, a legacy of families moving to the suburbs as Tulsa schools desegregated during the 1950s. I don’t know why you’re doubting yourself.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Texas and Wisconsin have reported bilingual teacher shortages during the 2023-24 academic year, according to federal data. In California, where 56 percent of public school students are Latino, many simply didn’t have teachers who could serve as role models, Lopez says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Our nation’s public school population is changing, fueled by growth in the number of multilingual learners. public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Many multilingual students face ongoing challenges and discrimination in public school. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. percent in 2000.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Too many of our public schools are missing teachers, especially in hard-to-staff subject areas. According to a recent report , last school year, 45 percent of public schools said they were understaffed, and nearly 9 in 10 school districts reported struggling to hire teachers heading into the 2023-24 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

But there is no college here and no public school. Many residents, Black and white, aren’t troubled by Issaquena’s lack of public schools because the population is so small. In rural school districts across the country, consolidation is a common cost-saving measure. In 1952, the U.S. in Glen Allan, Miss.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Nevertheless, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) State of Preschool 2023 Yearbook , in 2022-2023, more than 60 percent of pre-K children served were in public school settings, not private programs or home-based child care options.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families in Arizona can now withdraw their children from public schools and receive state funding to cover private school tuition. Franklin/Associated Press A Hechinger Report analysis of dozens of private school websites revealed that, among 55 that posted their tuition rates, nearly all raised their prices since 2022.

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