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MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. I haven’t heard about many school districts announcing longer schedules yet but I was curious to learn what research evidence shows for students at schools that have extended the day or lengthened the year.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

While Vertus High School doesn’t assign homework, Clovis Meikle, 17, says he works on his online classes at home to get ahead in advance of basketball season. Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Santos is the director of journalism and media arts for the Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts in Washington, D.C. Santos began her teaching career in a facility for students found guilty of criminal offenses; in the nearly two decades since, she has been a teacher and administrator in various schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

A study of Florida’s third grade retention policy revealed that English language learners who were held back became proficient more quickly and were more likely to take advanced courses in middle and high school. Lucy Kells, parent While reading is a strong predictor of later school struggles, so is poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Ten percent of high school seniors planning to attend a four-year college or university before the pandemic now say they’re going to do something else. But high school graduates who put off college often end up never going. About half say they will enroll at a community college. The empty campus of Vanderbilt University.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2019

First, some high schools around the country, many of them high-performing charters that serve urban neighborhoods, have figured out ways to turn their alumni into successful degree-earners. Second, advocacy groups have gotten really smart about leveraging their interventions to improve graduation rates.

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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

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 5, 2016

Grant Callen, president of “school choice” advocacy group Empower Mississippi, speaks before a crowd at the Capitiol at the beginning of National School Choice Week in February. John Moore, R-Brandon, likens Medicaid expansion to school privatization. Photo: Imani Khayyam. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.

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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

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 Today, middle and high schools are still the least likely to have daily physical education or recess.

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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

JULY 30, 2018

In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips.

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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 23, 2016

The conversation above took place at the meeting where we were to sign a new Individualized Education Program, the federally mandated document mapping out how his needs in school would be met. He was in the seventh grade, which meant it was time to contemplate “transition services,” to plan for what happens after high school.

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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

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

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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation. The victory was bittersweet.

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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

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

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. This would soon change.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

English teacher Samara Rand goes over a passage with a student in her class at Holmes County Central High School. The high school ranked as one of the lowest performing in Mississippi and Rand, a second-year teacher, often dissects passages with her students. Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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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. Doug Ducey and lobbied their local school boards to join the cause.

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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. She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families.

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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. A rundown alternative school and a divisive magnet school were closed, elementary school enrollment rules were reset and a middle school was built.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

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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. High school teacher Harley Brook has pondered using the books on this shelf as weapons in the case of an active shooter scenario. Photo courtesy Harley Brook.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. Donors to the National Parents Union include the Walton Family Foundation and the City Fund, another pro-charter group.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. Jamar McKneely, CEO, InspireNOLA charter schools.

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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

Looking back, our high school has crowned a Latina Homecoming Queen, as voted by the student body and has recognized the first Latino Valedictorian. In his first four-year term, he had closed three high schools because of falling enrollment and a budget shortfall he inherited. School gave me a sense of hope,” she said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

That’s certainly what the advocacy group Network for Public Education thinks. “ The Danger Is Now Real ,” they write, and expect “a new era of federal hostility toward public schools.” This blinkered view excludes 7,800 tax-funded and government-authorized charter schools that enroll 3.7 It also excludes another 4.7

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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. Board of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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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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