The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 5, 2024

In doing so he provides substantial evidence and analysis supporting the centrality of the anti-caste focus of the early civil rights movement and the subsequent failure of the courts to fully articulate a notion of equal protection that includes economic inequality that might lead to its full realization. Shomade of Emory University.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But Wilson, a Democrat from Florida, hopes to turn that around—starting today—with the introduction of the American Teacher Act, a bill that would establish a federal minimum salary of $60,000 for all public school teachers. Teachers in the U.S. Teachers in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Just 10 years ago, he was kicked out of his Vermont public school and finished at an alternative high school in Maine. That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Plus, Lambert says, some of their families lost work, hurting them economically. Leaders “understood that additional support was necessary to ensure our youngest learners were prepared for the social, emotional and academic demands of public school environments after a prolonged period without in-person learning opportunities,” he adds.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

15, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Universal pre-K is a state policy framework to provide every child with a quality, publicly funded preschool education. Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America’s April 2024 report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. Michael Rady , senior education programs manager, GLSEN We’re seeing record numbers of bills being introduced — 500 so far in 2024 — targeting LGBTQ+ people.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

State trust lands, on and off Indian reservations, make up millions of acres across the Western United States and generate revenue for public schools, universities, jails, hospitals and other public institutions by leasing them for oil and gas extraction, grazing, rights of way, timber, and more. Sign up for our newsletter here.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Zambia, education in Catholic versus secular primary schools decreases support for progressive gender attitudes. Across Latin America, citizens who attend private versus public schools have less support for the social contract. Murray, Weber State University (Presenter) J. Trojahn et al.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. The battle became personal, with some criticizing her $5,000-an-hour consulting and speaking fees at public schools while sending her own children to private school.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Prentiss died on April 2, 2024. Most notably, Prentiss was a key player in the civil rights struggle for school desegregation in Cleveland during the late 1970s. In 1978, a court ordered the desegregation of Cleveland public schools. We are saddened by the news that the powerful Ohio organizer and political leader C.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. Economic uncertainty in the 1990s and 2000s forced fluctuations in demand. After law school, Rayome returned to Libby to practice law. Aerial view of Libby on March 19, 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s one of dozens of evidence-based programs that could be implemented at more public schools across the country if the completion money comes through from Congress. The program would run from the 2023-2024 academic year, through 2029-2030. Without funding, the work at places like Bishop State can only go so far.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School. The school is steeped in history: It was the first African American public school in Kentucky, and counts boxer Muhammad Ali among its alumni.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2022

And there may be some wisdom to this line of thinking, as recent data suggests that public school pre-K and kindergarten enrollment are both demonstrating signs of a rebound. Indeed, recent reporting suggests that one rural Oregon provider has placed frozen embryos on its years-long waiting list.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

Related: Coronavirus offers a test of how schools could prepare for climate change. He’s likely not the only person in charge of public school facilities who is having trouble sleeping. Government Accountability Office. Clearly, you have to spend more money,” Loeffler said. “I Related: Climate change is a health crisis.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Going into the 2024 election, child care is on the minds of parents, particularly mothers. That view has shaped criticism of a universal child care plan for decades; in 1971, President Richard Nixon’s vetoed a plan to create federally funded public child care centers, arguing it had “family weakening implications.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2025

Its run by Jefferson County Public Schools, and Lacefield and the two other tellers are high schoolers. A lack of access to work-based learning can actually limit the career prospects and economic mobility of youth and adults, said Kyle Hartung, associate vice president for education at the nonprofit Jobs for the Future.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2024

I had to leave my job to get on public assistance so I could get this child care subsidy. But for years after, the quest for a voucher would interfere with her quest for economic stability. In early 2024, Funes and her son moved out of a shelter and into their own apartment. She hoped it would only be a temporary setback.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Colorados Democratic governor, Jared Polis, has pressured state agencies to help local governments survive economic losses from the transition to clean energy, largely by trying to lure new and potentially green industries to these communities. The state also has placed a priority on retraining current coal workers and getting them new jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Experts have also questioned the racial and economic biases of the registry system, especially when it comes to flagging child neglect. We’ve had, over the years, the situation where we tried to hire public school teachers and they didn’t pass the background check,” Brown said. (In

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Rethinking Schools : Teach Palestine. The spring 2024 issue offers a collection of articles and other resources on teaching about Palestine-Israel amid the growing attack on social justice education. Jews for Racial & Economic Justice’s “ Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement.”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This is actually an economic issue. When we care about something and decide it has enough societal value — whether public schools or roads or parks — we find the money,” Haspel said. She sees child care as both an economic and social issue. “I This isn’t a mom issue. This is a family issue,’” Chang said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This is actually an economic issue. When we care about something and decide it has enough societal value — whether public schools or roads or parks — we find the money,” Haspel said. She sees child care as both an economic and social issue. “I This isn’t a mom issue. This is a family issue,’” Chang said.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

On January 8, 2024, historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. They are killed for the crime of their economic success. We live in a time right now in 2024, where things don’t have to make sense. This session was the latest in our monthly Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online class series.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Historically a lot of the high-paying skilled trades were handed down from father to son, said Lauren Baker, a former education director in the printers union who also led Milwaukee Public Schools career and technical education program between 2002 and 2012. How do you adapt to a public school? It wasnt easy at first.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

They argued these efforts had focused too much on quickly steering youth toward a job any job often low-skill, unstable work vulnerable to economic downturns. Then in early 2024, a friend invited Lucian to move in with him, his mom, and his eight siblings in a house not far from Los HQ. Related: Widen your perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5 Trump’s 2024 platform advocates undercutting some of the protections teachers unions support. billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked for roughly two decades in public schools, as a geography teacher and football coach. He has championed investments in public education: For example, in March 2023, he signed a bill to make school meals free to all students in public schools. Harris, a former U.S.

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