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

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

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. She received an enthusiastic response, with many educators affirming the need to teach banned books and banned history. From there, participants heard about the history and present day efforts to protect the Wyandot burial grounds.

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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. history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? Wear Teach Banned History buttons to promote awareness of how the current legislation bans more than books.

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Education Library Social Justice K-12 52

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

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It sounds absurd, given that President-elect Trump just ran the most divisive campaign in modern history and will likely govern as if he won in a landslide. The Danger Is Now Real ,” they write, and expect “a new era of federal hostility toward public schools.” A threat to public education, indeed, as NPE defines it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Credit: Matt Stensland for The Hechinger Report Once there, however, Siyuja discovered how little shed learned at the Supai school. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

It was the largest salary increase in the history of teachers in Puerto Rico, Bonilla said, though even with the increase, teachers here still make far less money than teachers on the mainland. That effort will continue, according to Ramos, who called it very effective. In the past, both those issues led to fierce and widespread protests.

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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

Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s. Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. —

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