The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. We wanted to deal with that first.”.

Charter School 123

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 123

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.

Charter School 88

Charter School Advocacy Public School Tradition 88

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.

Charter School 111

Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

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. I’m pretty stoked to learn that.

High School 76

High School Charter School K-12 Private School 76

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.

Education 108

Education Charter School Middle School Advocacy 108

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.

K-12 75

K-12 Charter School Advocacy High School 75

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

Charter School 51

Charter School K-12 Advocacy Tradition 51

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.

K-12 61

K-12 Charter School Advocacy Tradition 61

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. Urban Institute analysis from 2015.

Education 85

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 85

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. The health care, the social services people need to be able to speak Spanish.”.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Charter School Advocacy Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. When the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) shut down, its 83 district-run schools and 33 charter schools served more than 49,000 students.

High School 117

High School K-12 Public School Library 117

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.

Charter School 77

Charter School Elementary School Leadership Advocacy 77

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states. 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.

Junior High 128

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

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.

Elementary School 108

Elementary School Middle School Charter School High School 108

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.

Charter School 81

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 81

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.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

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?

Elementary School 86

Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 86

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.

Elementary School 77

Elementary School Charter School Tradition Education Policy 77

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. Nina Leuzzi has taught pre-K in Boston, Massachusetts, for 10 years. Lockdown instructions posted in Nivia Vizurraga’s elementary school classroom. Photo courtesy Nivia Vizurraga.

Teaching 52

Teaching Elementary School Charter School High School 52

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.

Education 145

Education Advocacy K-12 Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

She blamed his school, and the investigators from the state’s child welfare agency they’d sent to her door. Until last fall, Banks had only good things to say about her children’s school. When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents. An intimidation tool? .

Charter School 111

Charter School Public School Advocacy Humanities 111

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.

Charter School 112

Charter School Public School Tradition K-12 112

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.

K-12 145

K-12 Charter School Middle School High School 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

Charter School 109

Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 109

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.

Private School 97

Private School Advocacy Elementary School Public School 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

GRANITE, Utah — On a recent winter afternoon, the scene inside Dobrila Hasic-Botic’s preschool classroom in Granite, Utah, seemed typical of a high-quality pre-K. The Minnesota Department of Education, a charter school in South Carolina and school officials in California’s Napa Valley all received funding.

Government 79

Government Elementary School Charter School Advocacy 79

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Public colleges couldn’t admit students without immigration documents and, even though, under federal law, K-12 schools are required to serve students regardless of citizenship status, the Alabama legislation also called for school districts to collect information on their students’ citizenship status.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There, he tried to give people information about important education-related bills, including the bill that introduced Amendment 2, which would overturn the state’s constitutional restriction that prohibits using public funds for private and charter schools. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

Civics 126

Civics Education Government K-12 126

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools.

Charter School 110

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 110

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

New Orleans has been branded a “choice system” primarily because it has maximized these two principles of school autonomy and choice more than any other district in the county, using charter schools, a voucher program and a computerized enrollment system. But lawsuits have pushed equity when independent schools were slow to act.

Charter School 73

Charter School Advocacy History Research 73

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

A study from University of California, Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson suggests exposure to integrated schools among other reforms, such as high-quality pre-K and equitable school funding, can help disrupt the cycle of poverty. Related: Teacher shortages force districts to use online education programs.

Private School 142

Private School High School Public School Charter School 142

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. The organization’s polling has found that three-quarters of parents support the idea of changing K-12 U.S.

Advocacy 119

Advocacy Charter School Political Science K-12 119

The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

In recent years, nearly half of all states have created publicly funded private K-12 tuition plans, collectively known as school vouchers. Makin that states permitting vouchers may not exclude religious schools. Arizona just expanded its already large voucher program; in Michigan, former U.S.

Private School 145

Private School K-12 Charter School Education Policy 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

No doubt other alternatives to traditional public education, such as charter schools, have encoun­tered some of these same impediments. percent of all K-12 students, were homeschooled. He his wife, Loretta, homeschooled their two sons from birth through high school. By 2012, about 1.8 million, or 3.4

K-12 82

K-12 Private School Charter School Advocacy 82

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

Responsibility for education in Michigan is shared between the State Board of Education, the state superintendent, the governor, and over 40 charter school authorizers , making it tough to know for sure who is responsible for what. Thirty percent of Michigan charter schools are managed independently or by nonprofit operators.

Charter School 76

Charter School Education Advocacy Public School 76

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

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. While the Department of Education argues that the proposed scholarship funds are not public dollars, new tax credits take away the very dollars that fund our public schools.

Charter School 84

Charter School Private School Advocacy Public School 84

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.

Charter School 85

Charter School Advocacy Public School Government 85