The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

John Brazeal, chief financial officer at Fox C-6 School District, at Fox Middle School in Arnold, Missouri. This story about school bonds is part of the series Districts in Debt , which examines the hidden financial pressures challenging American schools. Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

More than 40 percent of students of color go to high-poverty schools, compared to only 8.5 A similar program, the School Breakfast Program, helps ensure children start the day with a meal. The federal government subsidizes breakfast for close to 12.5 For a 1,000-student high school, it means $1.2

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That leaves schools in much of the country, including Arizona, free to punish most students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more. Yet the scope of that practice is largely hidden: The federal government doesn’t collect detailed data on why schools suspend students, and most states don’t, either.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. Is this actually what we want?’”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Around lunchtime, the middle school called: Come get your daughter, they told her. Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. He was no longer enrolled, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

But I’m not going to waste my time, my money on uniforms, for him to go to a school where he’s just going to fail.” Related: PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says For people who’ve long studied chronic absenteeism, the post-COVID era feels different.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

“We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship. Moises began skipping school. He made College Summit the school’s coolest club.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“In rural areas there’s often not the tax base you find in an urban or suburban school to fund additional programs,” said Lavina Grandon, co-founder and board president of Rural Community Alliance, a nonprofit school advocacy organization. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

As a middle schooler, Alan says he was bullied relentlessly even as he was repeatedly suspended. And while the pandemic closed middle schools across the country, it doesn’t appear to have shutdown school discipline. Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

She was outside supervising a group of students during a mask break at her middle school in South Berwick, Maine, when she felt a sense of overwhelming dread. Unfortunately, neither the federal government nor states reliably keep records on teacher turnover, making that figure hard to confirm. I didn’t have time to exercise.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Katherine Gallagher Robbins with the Center for Law and Social Policy, an advocacy group for low-income families, said that while schools aren’t viewed as child care providers in the traditional sense, elementary and middle school campuses do function as a “work support” for parents. Bureau of Census.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Her daughter loves school, she said, and her son in middle school can’t wait to try out for the soccer team. Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. The allure of helping disadvantaged children has combined with an openness, on the part of government actors, to private partnerships and technocratic fixes, especially those aimed at disciplining teachers.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“I think we all sometimes want to crave a benevolent dictatorship, like Singapore, where they're generally doing good stuff for the people, and it's all orderly, and no one's yelling at each other and there's a high degree of trust in the government,” Khan says. Still, the path was winding and not limited to school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

“… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.” Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us led with a startling figure: Most of the 120,000 high school students living in the country without legal permission who are graduating this year are ineligible for DACA. Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When Texas’ House Bill (HB) 25 went into effect earlier this year, banning transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, I invited teachers at my middle school to stop by my classroom to help with a project to reaffirm our school’s support for trans students.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

elementary and middle school children), whereas older ones gain more with non-directive guidance or guided discovery. Eliminating this program, they argue, would save the federal government money from not having to forgive potentially billions of dollars of federal student loans.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

WILDWOOD, Missouri — A middle school student in Missouri had trouble collecting images of people’s eyes for an art project. The Markup requested records from 26 school districts. schools censor the internet. She now serves as the policy and advocacy director for SIECUS, a national nonprofit advocating for sex education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Yakima School District kitchen workers Tracy Renecker and Alma Rosa Cuevas prepare to load bags of food into a car in October at the drive-through distribution point set up outside Washington Middle School in Yakima, Wash. Carts loaded with 10-meal bags wait in a walk-in cooler at Washington Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

What a horrific false choice,” said Morgan Craven, the national director of policy, advocacy and community engagement at the Intercultural Development Research Association, a San Antonio-based group that advocates for bans on corporal punishment. Sometimes, schools even force children to choose. During the February hearing, Rep.

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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. Martin Middle School, part of which dated to 1896 and was still in use. The growth in the graduation rate at Dillon High School over four years. Photo: Alan Richard.

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The Hechinger Report

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

DECEMBER 19, 2019

His favorite books are in the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series, about a kid who’s starting middle school. School staff passed out cake with fluffy white icing. But after Taheem began sixth grade at Bayard Middle School this year, everything began to fall apart. She was with a 26-year-old man thought to be in a gang.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

In Kachemak Selo, a remote coastal village 30 miles from Homer, students can be found wearing winter coats inside due to chilly drafts that seep through the cracked walls of the building housing the middle and high schools. He’s likely not the only person in charge of public school facilities who is having trouble sleeping.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. A middle school reading program would be altered because the books, one board majority member said, were too “doom and gloom.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Kirk: Especially for a generation of students that lived through the isolation of Covid-19 and has never seen a national government that wasn’t deeply divided. And so you have to start with the basic building blocks. Vannakota says these initiatives share a simple goal to promote healthy debate. I recently sat down with John Tomasi.

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