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. Kast says she would love to enroll him at Old Dominion, but the school does not have a special-education program. Most private schools in the state don’t. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

In some school districts, a specific diagnosis — and even the first-hand testimony of a neuropsychologist — can be crucial for accessing the best services. Those can range from occupational and speech therapy to small group time with a teacher to a publicly funded spot in a specialized private school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2019

First, some high schools around the country, many of them high-performing charters that serve urban neighborhoods, have figured out ways to turn their alumni into successful degree-earners. Second, advocacy groups have gotten really smart about leveraging their interventions to improve graduation rates.

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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. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

New Orleans, which at 25 percent has the highest percentage of students attending private schools , mimics national trends. White- and middle-class folk showing others that it’s not a risk to send a child to a good school with lots of black and brown kids — now that’s real reform.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He had high cognitive scores, but evaluators said he did not show skill gaps in the areas he needed to qualify as dyslexic. School got harder and harder for Ruiz, and in high school he was still inverting letters and having trouble with reading.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. Jean-Claude Brizard took over as superintendent of the Rochester City Schools in western New York in January 2008. O’Neal Elementary School is named for her father, a longtime educator in the district. The Ronald D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. 19 states still allow corporal punishment in public schools. Johnson is the mother of three girls. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

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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. A new high school facility is under construction. Lake Oconee Academy is expanding.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund. The Summit program was designed for high school students and expanded to middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. Like Santiago, some frustrated parents are turning to private schools to serve their kids.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

English teacher Samara Rand goes over a passage with a student in her class at Holmes County Central High School. The high school ranked as one of the lowest performing in Mississippi and Rand, a second-year teacher, often dissects passages with her students. Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s not always clear, however that this money goes directly to schools and parents: In Arizona, millions of dollars also went to businesses and non-school spending, a recent investigation found. The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I was telling my daughter, even if you’ve graduated high school, I will still always come and volunteer, because I love being a mom and I love being involved in the community.” billion funding boost for public schools that included teacher pay raises. That ain’t Texas,” said Rev.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

PITTSBURGH — Monet Spencer remembers traveling to affluent suburban high schools when she was a member of the marching band at Brashear High School in this city’s low-income, high-crime Beechview neighborhood. In suburban public high schools it went from 3.25 Then the cycle repeats.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

For Jefferson, the window is narrowing on making a decision on where — and how — her nephew will return to school. Public schools in Holmes County will start school online next month. Kinkaid had a lot to be proud of: None of her three oldest children dropped out from high school.

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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. school districts reporting that most of their schools’ ventilation systems need to be repaired or replaced.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. But beyond this day-to-day advocacy, critics see an organization with larger aims of discrediting teachers unions and public education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Looking back, our high school has crowned a Latina Homecoming Queen, as voted by the student body and has recognized the first Latino Valedictorian. Others worried that the English learners would drag down test scores and hurt their school district’s reputation.

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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.” This blinkered view excludes 7,800 tax-funded and government-authorized charter schools that enroll 3.7 It also excludes another 4.7

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

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

Aguilar had a secret she was holding close, one that made her college dream seem more impossible the nearer she got to high school graduation. Aguilar eventually took part in Teach for America, and she still teaches at the high school where she got her start, working with students who have recently arrived in the country.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

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. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government-funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice. Proponents advertise vouchers as giving low-income families the same opportunities afforded to rich ones.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group. He didn’t take the ELL job for the $19,000 salary. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Brody Scully is a high school student looking at colleges. Come with us to a college fair where recruiters line up to compete for applicants, and hear from enrollment consultants, economists, and the president of a school that has already closed. Its reps are simply telling potential students what the school is all about.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Historically, public schools have organized spending by category on the district-wide level — teachers, benefits, materials, for instance — but there were no structures in place to calculate how much money is spent in each school building. Jones was pregnant with her first child at 15 years old, and did not finish high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Rather, particularly at the high school level, students in the GNETS Program often receive only computer-based instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Conway urged participants at the post-Election Day gathering to speak a certain way in their advocacy to lawmakers going forward. She also urged the crowd not to make school choice about teachers unions, “which is fun to do, especially this week but it doesn’t educate another child.” (The Lead with solutions not problems.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The trio wept as they recalled Siyujas move as a teenager to a private boarding school 150 miles away in Sedona, Arizona, which shed chosen to attend because the federal agency that runs Havasupai Elementary, the only school in her village, provides no options for high school. That same year, the late Arizona Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

That’s because there aren’t enough decent private schools to serve at-risk kids. Many of the private schools that clamor to take voucher kids — think about the market here — are desperate for enrollment. But these student-desperate private schools too often fail to deliver. Discipline! Achievement!”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A block dominated by houses with peeling paint and patched shingles gives way to the massive dull-brick facade of North Division High School, Fuller’s alma mater. The former Milwaukee schools superintendent and longtime school choice advocate pauses. Black schools for black children.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

The movement has grown despite a lack of the resources available to public schools, without the air of exclusivity of private schools, and absent the brand of the college prep education of parochial schools. On the ACT, they score above the public school average but below that for private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

His wife, Leslie Johnson-Simmons, said she saw her creative, smart and chatty daughter retreat into herself as she tried to learn to spell like other first graders in her class at a private school in Louisiana. Her parents say she has thrived at the school. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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