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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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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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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. The state and federal government has to give us the resources that we need.”. But that’s easier said than done.

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MAY 20, 2024

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing.

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APRIL 8, 2021

In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. While the impression is that high schoolers are more “crime-prone,” she said, middle school is when students are most at risk of arrest for non-injurious assaults.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Trump promoted the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act as a means to “rescue” students “trapped in failing government schools.” While the Trump administration couches choice in the language of individual freedoms, it is only public schools that are bound to uphold the civil rights of all students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. The allure of helping disadvantaged children has combined with an openness, on the part of government actors, to private partnerships and technocratic fixes, especially those aimed at disciplining teachers.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Minnesota Department of Education, a charter school in South Carolina and school officials in California’s Napa Valley all received funding. These types of transactions enable private sector companies to be responsive to the requests from local/state government who have limited funding.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. As a university administrator who managed charter schools, I was told, “You have to share the sunny side of facts.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A charter school in New Orleans. Charter schools didn’t create segregation but the charter school movement isn’t helping to end it either. A startling number, but the charter school lobby essentially responded with a version of, “So what?”. Photo: Cheryl Gerber. When Martin Luther King Jr.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s not always clear, however that this money goes directly to schools and parents: In Arizona, millions of dollars also went to businesses and non-school spending, a recent investigation found. The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

What will this mean for the nation’s schools? Trump said relatively little about education during the presidential campaign, but school choice was one of the issues he highlighted. A lot of rhetoric about choice, and advocacy for state voucher plans.”. A lot of rhetoric about choice, and advocacy for state voucher plans.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Former Vice President Joe Biden made increasing school funding central to his new education platform. Bernie Sanders has proposed tripling Title I funding for low-income schools. Elizabeth Warren’s plan would limit charter schools in favor of funding for traditional public schools. spends less.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. They led a letter-writing campaign requesting Pennsylvania government officials investigate “school board overreach in Pennridge.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

During her contentious hearing, DeVos made clear her preference for an education system that favors choice – including virtual charter schools with dismal track records. The Obama administration also invested federal dollars in charter schools, but the $20 billion level Trump has proposed for promoting school choice is unprecedented.

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MARCH 27, 2023

The blatant hypocrisy was not lost on Schumer: Republicans who once treasured small government are now asking for more governmental oversight. “If If passed, schools across the nation would be forced to adhere to a panoply of federal regulations that take power away from parents and school districts,” Schumer said.

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