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If the only approach schools took to address this crisis was hiring more counselors, they would ignore what these Detroit youth organizers are highlighting: the underlying policies and practices in schools that exacerbate the fear and anxiety immigrant students experience in schools.

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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.”.

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MARCH 13, 2017

If teachers commit to sending their own children to public schools maybe people who pay tuition to alleviate their fears will follow. The majority of students currently in public schools in the U.S. are low-income and concentrated in the same schools. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Sanders, who is African-American, first presented the idea for a dual-language program at Houston to the District of Columbia Public Schools in 2014. schools, experts say — up from about 260 in 2000. There are at least 2,000 of these programs in U.S. It’s a common argument, even among educators.

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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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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. But Gray had already been having issues with her sons’ school.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. If school teachers are just now reacting to it, then I question whether or not it’s being taken seriously. “I’m in the school. Because I email, I call.

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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. The high schools they attend are also much less likely to have many college counselors. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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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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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. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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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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APRIL 22, 2020

Faced with the unprecedented challenge of lengthy school closures because of coronavirus, the nation’s roughly 13,000 public school districts are scrambling to cope. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020.

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Figures now available down to the school district show the consequences of homelessness policy that doesn’t address race directly. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20. In 36 states and Washington, D.C., So we haven’t even named the problem.”.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was proof that his initiative to break up large campuses into smaller, more personal schools was working. On its face, such claims seem fair. There’s tremendous poverty in all four cities, but there’s tremendous wealth in New York City.

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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. is entering her 19th year teaching high school social studies at a public school in rural Kansas. “We She teaches third grade in a public school district in Texas.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2018

He really struggles behavior-wise,” said Banks, a tall, self-assured woman who’d attended neighborhood public schools in Chicago and desperately wanted something different for her kids. And at this school they have a low tolerance for it.”. Calling ACS is one of the tools in [a school’s] repertoire to make the parents comply.”.

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JUNE 17, 2018

This was clearly no ordinary public school. A driveway circling a landscaped pond led them to the school’s main hall. Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Related: OPINION: When Black parents benefit from school choice, it doesn’t perpetuate racism. Overt racism like this is, I hope, less prominent in today’s public-school classrooms than it was 30 years ago in my own — if for no other reason than no one can ever again claim that a Black person can’t become president of our country.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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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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JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community. Warren’s plan, A Great Public School Education for Every Student , is one of the most comprehensive education policy proposals by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Joining In Peter Jefferson, a senior at Henry Clay High School, a public school in Lexington, Kentucky, is active in politics, especially for someone who is not yet 18 years old.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. Howard Fuller, former superintendent of Milwaukee’s public schools. Schools led and controlled by black people. Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While the county is about 16 percent white and 82 percent black, the public schools are nearly all black. Fewer than 30 white students are enrolled in the entire district, a steep decline from the fall of 1966, when about 6,000 black students and 1,000 white students attended the county’s schools. still serves students today.

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2023

These options include microschools like Valles’ Ellemercito Academy, homeschooling coops like Engaged Detroit , “classical” options such as Haven School (focused on nature) in Colorado and Bridges Virtual Academy in Wisconsin, among others that spoke about their work. At Harvard, the state’s education commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr.

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JULY 20, 2022

But in 2022 the evidence is just too stark to justify the use of public money to fund private tuition. Particularly when other choice options like charter schools and inter-district enrollment are available to families and have a better track record. I started this research cautiously optimistic that vouchers could help.

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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.

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MAY 15, 2019

In Newark, New Jersey, for example, alumni from Uncommon Schools , which enrolls poor, minority students, are on track to graduate with bachelor’s degrees at rates better than students from affluent families. Second, advocacy groups have gotten really smart about leveraging their interventions to improve graduation rates.

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JULY 19, 2017

The movement has grown despite a lack of the resources available to public schools, without the air of exclusivity of private schools, and absent the brand of the college prep education of parochial schools. On the ACT, they score above the public school average but below that for private schools.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), all public schools — traditional and charter — are required to provide a free and appropriate education to students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Private and religious schools, on the other hand, have no such obligation.

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MARCH 3, 2025

The National Center for Education Statistics is a relatively obscure federal agency, but its mission to collect data on the state of education affects every public school in the country. It belongs to the public. It is a public asset. The data belongs to the people, Woodworth said.

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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

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