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MARCH 13, 2017

Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color. Board of Education , that mandated desegregation in schools, and after 25 years of education reform, white families aren’t flocking to neighborhood schools or charters with black children.

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The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it. 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. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

Here’s the latest, more profound way in which wealthier students have an advantage over lower-income ones: Those enrolled in private and suburban public high schools are being awarded higher grades — critical in the competition for college admission — than their urban public school counterparts with no less talent or potential, new research shows.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

When Ann Civitareale’s father passed away in 2009, she little fathomed that she would spend thousands of her inheritance on medical and educational testing for her two sons. Cassandra Archie, Advocates for Educational Equity & Excellence. Related: Sent home early: Lost learning in special education. It is intimidating.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But a troubled school system is nothing new in a state that has long failed to provide all of its children with an equal, integrated education. For almost as long, over a half century, black families in Holmes County have taken to the courts and organized to challenge the conditions in their children’s schools. In Alexander v.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Yet, she said, “there is still a push from school leaders that ‘We want 100 percent of our students to apply to college.’ ”. The situation has school counselors feeling stuck, said Mandy Savitz-Romer, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and expert in school counseling. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2019

. Boosting education equity should be the starting point for a solution aimed at narrowing the nation’s widening — and alarming — gaps in income, wealth and education. Second, advocacy groups have gotten really smart about leveraging their interventions to improve graduation rates. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending. They reported only districtwide averages, making disparities across districts the primary fodder for conversations about educational inequities. School officials are often surprised by their own spending trends, once they see them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

We look at our health issues, educational issues … all of this stuff comes back full force to poverty. We look at our health issues, educational issues … all of this stuff comes back full force to poverty,” Jefferson said. Public schools in Holmes County will start school online next month.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

What they lack is college-educated relatives, counselors, role models or mentors to make sure they take the courses and meet the deadlines they need to, or who encourage them to think about their further educations. Fewer than one in five children of parents without higher educations end up getting degrees. Higher Education.

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MAY 11, 2016

“There’s a huge learning curve when you enter college, and a lot of kids aren’t ready,” said Denise Clark Pope, a senior lecturer in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education who studies how to improve students’ engagement and reduce their stress. Subscribe to our Higher Education newsletter. Photo: Margaret Noble.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He never received extra help or special education services from his Houston-area school district. When Odegard was the first student in his school to solve a complex murder mystery puzzle, one of them said he must have guessed. I compensated for my reading and spelling problems by staying up until 1 or 2 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

Yet throughout India, a number of digital initiatives are underway aimed at improving education in areas that lack sufficient trained and experienced teachers. billion population is under 25, will need some three million new primary school teachers by 2030. India has also had long had a problem with keeping girls in school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Students engage in creative activities on the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center in San Antonio, Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Texas — By the end of the school year, the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center looked like a dreamscape of “DIY Outdoor Learning Spaces.” Photo: Bekah McNeel for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

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. It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

As a result, she said, during the school’s first Basecamp year in 2015, “many parents were thinking, ‘oh, this is just about kids being on the computer.’ ” The school has since done more parent outreach to combat that misperception. Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education nonprofit The Learning Accelerator.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Before kindergarten, Jennifer Choi’s son was denied special education services despite a diagnosis of ADHD. NEW YORK — To Eva Santiago, her son’s education has always felt like an impossible dilemma. They are notoriously difficult for schools to serve effectively for two reasons, say advocates, parents and some educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2021

Taken together, school facilities emit about 72 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year , the equivalent of about 18 coal power plants or 8.6 million homes, according to the climate advocacy organization Generation180. The stately brick building, built in 1928, is now a magnet school with a focus on marine sciences.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The program would have allowed any Texas student to use public money to offset the cost of private-school tuition, but skeptical lawmakers worried the plan would divert dollars from public schools, tightening district budgets without a proportionate reduction in costs. Abbott pitched his version as an effort to empower parents.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services began investigating Tiffany Banks for alleged child neglect and abuse, she says, around the time her son started to misbehave in school and she pushed back on a plan for his educational services. All I’m looking for is a good education for my kid,” said Banks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

When education became a focal point in gubernatorial elections this November, it was no surprise to Keri Rodrigues, president and co-founder of the National Parents Union. At the time, the group’s stated mission was to make education a more prominent issue in the upcoming presidential election.

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The Hechinger Report

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.” A threat to public education, indeed, as NPE defines it. But that’s the problem. million children across 44 states and Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Russellville City school district created De La Rosa’s position in early 2021 as part of a larger effort to help educate its growing population of students who speak English as a second language. But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

So for now, Aguilar advises these students as best she can.The teacher helps with their practical questions, like how to pay for higher education. Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us He’s now the senior managing director of the Teach for America Immigration and Education Alliance.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2018

New research shows that private schools are contributing to America’s educational woes. It’s long past time we took a critical look at private schools. educational system based on a bedrock of evidence that its public schools were failing. Now what are we going to do about it?

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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 Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at a White House meeting, March 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. For four years, opponents of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos deplored her private school priorities, so it was hardly expected she’d be hailed as a hero for a sudden epiphany disassociating herself from President Donald Trump and resigning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

This story about climate change and education was produced as part of the This story was produced as part of the nine-part series “Are We Ready? Beatriz López taught seventh grade science in the Lake Travis Independent School District, in Austin, Texas, from 2008 to 2017. ” This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The school used to be a source of pride for the city’s black community, a stepping stone to middle-class achievement as its graduates went on to become doctors, businesspeople and win election to Congress. In 2016 not a single child at “North,” as locals call it, tested proficient in math according to the state’s education department.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Like many schools across Mississippi, Morton is scrambling to adjust to an influx of Spanish-speaking students for which it was completely unprepared. In a state that ranks at or near the bottom in education spending nationwide, it can be a challenge just to maintain buildings and stock classrooms with basic supplies.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump looks on as Betsy DeVos, his nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There are some things that can get you uninvited to a black family reunion — and tap dancing to the news that Betsy DeVos is the next Secretary of Education is one of them.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Trump has selected Betsy DeVos, a philanthropist and school-choice advocate from Michigan, as his secretary of education. What will this mean for the nation’s schools? Trump said relatively little about education during the presidential campaign, but school choice was one of the issues he highlighted.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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