The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. Children who had won lotteries to attend these charter schools had higher reading scores than students who lost the lotteries. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum. A new study, published online on Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2024

Student and teacher absenteeism, special education referrals, mental health complications and violence within and outside schools are all on the rise as student enrollment and state funding are in free fall. Compounding these challenges, federal pandemic relief education funding (known as ESSER) ends in September 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

Schoolwide, the share of students who were chronically absent declined from 35 percent in March 2023 to 23 percent in March 2024 — one of the steepest declines among Massachusetts high schools. But to make more progress, experts say, schools must get creative to address their students’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The vertical red line represents the deadline for committing federal ESSER funds (September 2024). Grade refers to the grade students are in during the 2022–23 school year. Catlin Goodrow is a reading specialist who works with third, fourth and fifth grade students who need extra help at a charter school in Spokane, Washington.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) is a federal funding program to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide. 30, they can continue to use funds until Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. As an African-American and a woman, Davis is part of two demographic groups that that are vastly underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

It turns out that some of them dissuaded homeowners from enrolling children in PUSD , contributing to the exodus to private schools and, more recently, charter schools. Changing negative perceptions that date back to school desegregation during the 1970s hasn’t been easy, they said.

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4QM Teaching

JANUARY 7, 2024

We wish you all the best for 2024. We’ll be writing even more curriculum in 2024, and it will all follow the same basic structure that made this fifth grade classroom successful. , we gave a presentation, we went to presentations — it was two full days of history teaching nerds hanging out and talking all things social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools. 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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase , came together in just a handful of months. Its opening ends the city’s five-year run as the only all-charter school district in the nation. Charter schools receive public funding, but are independently run.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Philadelphia’s tiered education system, which received a partial overhaul this past fall, has funneled high-performing students into admissions-only high schools and charter schools and concentrated those with greater needs in nonselective schools like West Philadelphia, which must work overtime with few resources to keep kids on track.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

ZinnEdProject pic.twitter.com/p6ZD5LtD8y — SURJ KC (@SURJ_KC) June 11, 2024 The event began in the auditorium of the KCKPL Main Library where participants learned from local Palestinian-American organizers. Maryland Annapolis A dynamic event was hosted by Key School, featuring a diverse range of activities. Early voting.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Four years ago, and two months pregnant, Kaleeya enrolled as one of the first students at Lumen High School. When the Spokane school district authorized the charter school, it acknowledged that these students had been underserved in traditional high schools and that alternatives were needed.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

In 2024, not only are books being banned, but also the right to teach about racism and LGBTQ+ identity — essentially placing thousands more titles off limits. This graphic is available to download and print as an 11 x 17 poster. Credit: Zinn Education Project. Creative Common License to copy and distribute for noncommercial purposes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

It is tragic that basic facts about human biology are so controversial for abortion supporters in 2024.” Sarah Dean, an English teacher at a public charter school in the Nashville area, objects to the video and to the fact that the sponsor of the Tennessee bill, State Rep. It’s sheer projection.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

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. Starting in November, I tried to talk with school board members, the mayor and City Council members about the school district and Grimes, but they did not respond initially to my interview requests.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The Danger Is Now Real ,” they write, and expect “a new era of federal hostility toward public schools.” NPE warns of deep cuts to federal programs that support low-income students and those with disabilities, more funding for charter schools, advocacy for religious education and a nationwide voucher program.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2022

Mark Schneider is a veteran numbers guy who has spent a career crunching education data about things like post-college earnings, graduation rates and charter schools. NCES is planning to update this course content study in 2024 to see if course content has deteriorated further.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

’” Expect that reticence to be a thing of the past, Conway told the audience at an event last week devoted to promoting the benefits of school choice — from sweeping education savings accounts in the style of programs in West Virginia and Arizona to charter schools and microschools. Lead with solutions not problems.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

They also required the BIA the BIE had not yet been established to work with tribes to create a system of schools of the highest quality. In its first report following a January 2024 visit, the monitor found the bureau in violation of 72 of those requirements. Most cases in our legal system end in money, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

In total, during fiscal year 2024, more than 68 percent of the education budget on the island comes from federal funding, compared to 11 percent in U.S. That effort will continue, according to Ramos, who called it very effective. Ramos was well-liked by educators during his first stint as education secretary.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

With respect to Native students, Trump as president released a “Putting America’s First Peoples First” brief outlining his promises to Indian Country, including access to college scholarships for Native American students, creating new tribally operated charter schools and improving the beleaguered agency that oversees K-12 education on reservations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Biden administration announced significant rule changes to Title IX in 2024 that undid some of the changes the Trump administration made, including removing a mandate for colleges to have live hearings and cross-examinations when investigating sexual assaults on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For fiscal 2024, the department oversaw about $14 billion in funding for school-aged children, with smaller pots of money going to infants, toddlers, and other special education-related programs. At that time, it was administered by the department of Health, Education and Welfare (now known as the Health and Human Services department).

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