The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

. — Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Since its inception in 2002, Making Community Connections Charter School (MC 2 ) has been committed to personalizing learning. The post How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

“If school teachers are just now reacting to it, then I question whether or not it’s being taken seriously. Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL. “I’m in the school. Because I email, I call.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At some homes, she translates school emails into Spanish and answers technical questions. Then she gets down to what has become the meat of her job as a school social worker at College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School: making sure her students and their families are coping with the multiple stresses of the pandemic. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2016

If one looks and listens closely, black reform advocates and charter leaders are responding to the mythology that black people don’t want charter schools or reform in general. We are never surprised and are always encouraged by black educators who make systems work—including those in charters. The report found: “A new $2.3

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

More than 330 schools now use the Summit Learning Platform, designed by the Summit charter school network in California and Washington.). Related: Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning. Procope thinks the personalization of self-paced lessons has already made a difference.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

A coalition of seven charter school management organizations (CMOs) in New Orleans and the Kingsley House , a non-profit that serves low-income and vulnerable populations, have partnered to offer a “diverse by design” early childhood center.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Department of Education officials estimated that 82 percent of schools would fall short.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. They also wanted school officials to send a clear message to the community that Lusher supported Black Lives Matter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. Trade Industry.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

High school senior Brody Ford is looking forward to the final weeks of the school year, but not for the reasons you might think. At San Diego’s High Tech High School, Ford and his fellow 12th-graders take end-of-the-year courses in personal finance, cooking on a budget, even sewing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

schools, experts say — up from about 260 in 2000. The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students. There are at least 2,000 of these programs in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. Students at the Luis Valdez Leadership Academy, a charter school on San Jose’s low-income east side. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Some low-income prospective students now are working to help their families, said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America; others are seeing record unemployment rates and wondering whether there will be any jobs for them, even with degrees. “It’s going to affect them for a really long time.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It APPLETON, Wisc. Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Online education and remote education are two very different things, said Steve Kossakoski, CEO of the New Hampshire-based Virtual Learning Academy Charter School , or VLACS, which has been hosting free webinars for educators seeking digital-learning guidance. Related: Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In a survey conducted by Educators for Excellence, a teacher-led advocacy group, gun violence ranked as teachers’ No. 1 school safety concern. One central message of post-Parkland activism: Gun violence has changed what it means to be a student in America. Teachers say that everything has changed for them, too.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the first story, or revelation, the overarching theme is the stunning amount of sharing that went on about this elite group (roughly the top 20 percent of all charter schools, the schools that add roughly a year-and-a-half of learning for every year a student spends there). . It really didn’t have to turn out like it did.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

“It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. There’s tremendous poverty in all four cities, but there’s tremendous wealth in New York City.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, in New Orleans, 30 of 72 public schools (or 41 percent) have just received a “D” or an “F” grade, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. The website The Lens , which covers public education in New Orleans, reported that 65 percent of schools have declined in performance over the last three years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Several times, the school issued a suspension and sent Curry’s granddaughter home.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Public Integrity’s analysis also found that students with disabilities have higher rates of homelessness than the rest of their peers in every state except Mississippi, suggesting that a significant share of students who already require additional support attend school uncertain of where they will sleep that night.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2016

This year Corey is at an innovative public charter school organized around entrepreneurship where a number of students like him are excelling. Self-advocacy—which we know is key from the experiences of colleges actively courting students on the spectrum–is built into every step.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

The report counts 457 full-time virtual schools and 87 blended learning schools. These are significantly smaller numbers than those reported by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL), an advocacy organization for these types of schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. Both suspensions and arrests have been on a downward track after peaking in the mid-1990s, but hundreds of thousands of boys of color are subjected to both every year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

“… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.” What makes them different?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Most states have something on the books to encourage competency-based options, but only about a half-dozen have loosened seat-time dictates enough to dispense with grade levels, according to Matt Williams, chief operating officer and vice president of policy and advocacy for the personalized-learning nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school. Charters are public schools, ostensibly open to all. Kim Smith, a mother of three in Greene County.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.” Thanks in part to his advocacy, the state now has instructional support for districts, 12 coaches and a state director of English learning. It has been scrapped.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Kumar said school counselors were key allies for her and her friends – mentors and confidantes who can help students navigate thoughts, feelings and dilemmas that they may not understand. “A Induja Kumar, senior, BASIS Chandler charter school. A lot of us became desensitized to really horrible things.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

According to EdBuild, a nonprofit focused on school finance issues, predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more in funding than districts that serve mostly students of color. Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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