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JUNE 6, 2018

. – Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. Dozens of these ultra-green schools are going up in every sort of district – urban and rural, affluent and lower income, blue state and red state. RELATED: Psst!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Related: When your disability gets you sent home from school In 2021-22 alone, the 17 school districts that provided data issued more than 1,600 long-term suspensions, an average of nine per school day. City School District of Albany meted out 280. That’s not what happens.”

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APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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JUNE 9, 2016

Two days before graduation at the Mississippi School for the Deaf, the 10 seniors are on their class trip to Dallas, and the elementary school is having its awards day program. The rest of the student body does what any other school does in the festive penultimate days of an academically rigorous school year: winds down.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

They don’t have the choice to, say, tax real estate developers to fund their schools.” Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. A hallway at Franklin Elementary school lined with tiny lockers and student art. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Her older kids loved their high school sports teams and she couldn’t imagine uprooting them. Suka feared what a notice-to-vacate would mean for her children.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Over the past few months, Nathan Roberts has witnessed dozens of substitute teachers stumble through their first days at Penny Creek Elementary School. Nathan Roberts, a full-time substitute at Penny Creek Elementary School, teaches a class of kindergarteners how to count. Credit: Image provided by Everett Public Schools.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

He said that he’ll also be looking “outside the school house” to consider other factors that contribute to a student’s readiness to learn. Housing insecurity, hunger, you know, economic instability,” he said. “So I went from 25 kids to 600 at Hanover Elementary School … Now it’s over 530,000, but it’s still service to kids.”.

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MAY 2, 2022

And then there was Stephanie Hughes, who taught elementary school in North Carolina for four years before moving to Indiana this past summer. During the pandemic the public teaching workforce appears to have shrunk by nearly 7 percent, according to federal jobs data crunched by the Economic Policy Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

When I was in fourth grade at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, my teacher held a career day, where my classmates and I were to come dressed for the jobs we hoped one day to hold. They’re public charter schools, which in Tennessee are all run by nonprofits. I don’t have Franklin money, so we stayed put.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. After a guide pointed out several science labs, the tour paused at the “piano lab.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. In Austin, 53 percent of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The national average is about $12,000 per student.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. It makes complete economic sense,” Lewis said. “If This doesn’t help low-income families.”

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JUNE 17, 2021

While advocating for immigration reform that has been stymied by political dysfunction, tech leaders and entrepreneurs are also pleading for more education in American high schools in computer science, a subject fewer than half of them teach. high schools don’t offer a single computer science class. Fifty-three percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

While at Yale Law School, she added an extra year to her studies to take courses in child development. As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. And yet, the kitchen table economics of the new American reality make less sense than ever. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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