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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades. Lawmakers in Ohio in recent years have lifted income caps on those vouchers, along with their requirement that to be eligible, families must live in an area with schools designated as failing.
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ED Surge
MAY 20, 2024
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.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 28, 2017
India has also had long had a problem with keeping girls in school. And many of the public, government-run schools – where 70 percent of all children study – have no computers or tablets. A more nuanced view of how blended learning is working in India can be seen in a 2015 report done by the membership and advocacy group CoSN.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 31, 2020
District administrators are committed, as is the school board, and even the county government has embarked on an equity mission for the broader community. Uriburu said this is the first time the Black and Latino communities have teamed up to advocate for better schools, and they are very clear about their right to make demands.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 6, 2022
“Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed. Advocates wonder why the federal government hasn’t stepped in to quash the practice entirely.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I Guidelines put out by the U.S.
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