The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

I think that there are some big questions that we have to ask as a state after the Governor’s school funding veto. Budgets reflect policy priorities. How big a priority are our public schools? Roark is correct about our tone but I will also note that educators’ current policy advocacy is not working.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data. Rochester City School District recorded the second most, with 854. There are many times when we have to look at the safety and welfare of all the students.” That’s not what happens.”

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The Hechinger Report

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. But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools. Photo: Alan Richard. DILLON, S.C. — In 2007, when U.S. Obama toured the old J.V.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Chronic shortfalls in federal funding have burdened local education agencies and families, and — in the most extreme cases — denied these children access to quality education. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. It’s called an individualized education plan!”

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The Hechinger Report

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.

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The Hechinger Report

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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It’s about the viability of public education in their community. The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. The policy ended up passing 4-0. This is not hyperbole.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2021

Amy Laitinen, director of higher education, New America think tank. Amy Laitinen, director of higher education within the education policy program at the think tank New America, said she agrees the federal government should invest in job training programs, but that Pell isn’t the appropriate vehicle. “I

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

e.g., 50 langages at Marshalltown HS, 100+ languages in Des Moines Public Schools. University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. The Latino Boom, 1993-2008 (plus smaller populations of Bosnians and other refugees). Today = Microplurality. Christopher Morphew , U.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. This copy includes the adoption of the bill known as SB 150, which limits the rights of LGBTQ+ youth in the state’s public schools. Few adults in Meryl’s schools took action to stop it, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I In Austin, 53 percent of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2016

“This is an event that is designed to bring the party together, and there are these sharp divisions between the education reform folks and traditional education people, so it makes sense that they would avoid talking about them beyond generalities,” said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” All of this reached a boiling point last April, when Pennridge hired a brand-new consultancy firm called Vermilion Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

I am an education policy professor who has spent almost two decades studying programs like these, and trying to follow the data where it leads. Related: Supreme Court ruling brings an altered legal landscape for school choice. Joshua Cowen is a professor of Education Policy at Michigan State University.

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