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.”

Advocacy 140

Advocacy Public School Charter School Tradition 140

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Still, a stalwart group of 21 House lawmakers, most of whom represent rural areas and fear the measure would pull resources away from their public schools, sided with state Democrats to torpedo the legislation. Charles Johnson, executive director of Pastors for Texas Children, a public-school advocacy group. “It It’s just wrong.”

Private School 139

Private School Public School High School Political Science 139

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. But beyond this day-to-day advocacy, critics see an organization with larger aims of discrediting teachers unions and public education.

Advocacy 123

Advocacy Charter School Political Science K-12 123

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents. Many more have seemed unfounded, with cultural differences in child-rearing clearly playing a role. Skene added: “We are starting to work with local communities to identify cultural and racial disparities and how we can respond better.”. Out of options.

Charter School 111

Charter School Public School Advocacy Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. Others worried that the English learners would drag down test scores and hurt their school district’s reputation. They love family.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Elementary School 96

Elementary School K-12 Teaching Middle School 96

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 14, 2025

definition of genocide); miseducating students that advocacy for Palestinian lives is inherently anti-Semitic; perpetuating a consequential fallacy that justice is an either-or proposition; flouting the espoused value of free speech; and ceding critical dialogue, discernment and action when lives are literally at stake.

Advocacy 52

Advocacy Private School Cultures Education 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

He also pitched a new, five-year strategic direction that will emphasize tribal sovereignty and cultural education both promises the bureau made in its reform agenda more than a decade ago. They led culture and language classes, and Siyuja still owns a copy of the Havasupai dictionary they gifted her as a child.

Education 104

Education Elementary School Government K-12 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s stance on school choice has created unlikely alliances with deep-pocketed conservatives and has put him at odds with mainstream civil rights advocates, but his work is impacting a younger generation of black school leaders striving to create culturally relevant institutions for the students they serve. The trade-off.

Charter School 109

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 109