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JANUARY 27, 2025

Financial constraints Justin Baeder, a former public school principal in Seattle who now conducts professional development for school leaders, posted a video commentary on X. The outcome of inclusion for students with SLD [students with learning disabilities] is frequently less than positive.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

On the verge of finishing high school, Allison Dinsmore doesn’t know yet what she’ll do after she graduates. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. .” NEWARK, Calif. —

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APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. This doesn’t help low-income families.” Credit: Ross D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

During my sophomore year of high school, I experienced something completely unprecedented and, until that year, I hadn’t realized how vital it was to my self-esteem, self-identification and self-growth. But black men account for only 2 percent of all teachers in American public schools. Before Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines. Eli Clark, high school junior, Austin, Texas. Nearly two months went by.

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MAY 12, 2024

Only 10 percent of public school principals nationwide are Black , which helps explain why hiring and retaining Black teachers has been so problematic. Fenwick notes that policy efforts today must acknowledge and deal with the relics of that “systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.”

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JUNE 9, 2024

Men, however, are elevated to high school principalships and district positions that include fiscal or operational roles — precisely the kind of experiences that are prioritized during superintendent search processes. Of respondents who had been principals, fewer than 20 percent served in a high school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In that role, she visited schools around the city and was shocked by the disparities in school building facilities and resources, she said. Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

Search “School Resource Officer brutality” online, and you’ll find pages and pages of complaints about excessive force written by kids who haven’t even reached high school. No children should have to walk school hallways afraid that a gun will be pulled on them by an SRO before they reach class.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Whether high school graduates transition to college or a career, there is a good chance that they will tap into their creative skills.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 A recent survey of U.S. teachers found that 9 in 10 reported they need more resources to care for their students’ mental health.

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JULY 1, 2022

The Court ruled that Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from a state tuition program was “discrimination against religion.” The program uses taxpayer dollars to help rural families who live far from a public school attend a private school instead. The tuitioning programs are not vouchers.

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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 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

High schoolers at NACA graduate at much higher rates and tend to outperform their peers in Albuquerque Public Schools — which authorizes the charter — and throughout New Mexico. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. There was nothing like this.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2022

This former high school teacher and current professor shared his thoughts in a Twitter thread today that got some attention. The vision of schools as businesses is currently ascendant. That is: schools should respond to what their customers want. Public schools are publicly funded. School often sucks.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Elizabeth Forward School District leaders, for example, knew it was time to innovate when local employers informed them the district had hundreds of entry-level coding jobs that needed to be filled. Community Engagement and Advocacy. These efforts excite students and provide them pathways to further develop their passions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Neither school has an officially sanctioned team, so they play six-on-six matches in a club league every Saturday. Louisiana principals voted Friday to amend a rule that had barred some immigrant students from playing high school sports. But high school athletics associations are independent nonprofits; each has their own rules.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I public school students was highest in city school districts at 3.7

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. This story also appeared in USA Today The son of parents who work at a hospital and for UPS, Agyei wanted to go to a school away from his home state of Illinois, but that was too expensive. Miguel Agyei. Meanwhile, costs keep going up.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Families want good schools and are trying to choose them in droves. We need a funding system that gives them this power, funding students based on their learning needs, at the public schools that they actually attend. “In Related: Intensive intervention helps lift student performance. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The nation’s school districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than is needed to maintain “healthy and safe” learning environments, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization. The money went to repairs, renovations and remodeling.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. Related: STUDENT VOICE: Here’s why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism. history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

“The Green New Deal for Schools is so important right now in the U.S., The campaign is part of a growing recognition of the importance of schools and young people in the fight against climate change. Signing up for her school’s environmental justice club and being connected to Sunrise, she said, “made me feel less alone.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

As bad as things are right now, educators across the country — sometimes off the record, often with a grimace — say they have found that the pandemic brings, if not new opportunities, at least some newfound clarity about the equity issues these children routinely faced in pre-pandemic public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. She is a high school senior, a Queens native, and a K-drama fan. live in New York City.”.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. Bradley loves baking lava cakes. I can feel. I can love.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. Lucy Kells, parent While reading is a strong predictor of later school struggles, so is poverty. If school teachers are just now reacting to it, then I question whether or not it’s being taken seriously.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If O’Neal had received Centennial’s per-pupil funding, it would have meant an extra $789,905 in its budget: Money that could have covered more — or more experienced — teachers, social workers or home-school liaisons, or paid for new programs to address students’ academic and nonacademic needs. Credit: Paul Valade/Daily Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

Simón López, the Coordinator of Special Education at the Sarah Greenwood Elementary School for Dual Languages, is calling attention to the failure of Boston Public Schools’ dual language programs to accept students with certain types of disabilities – a violation of the spirit, at least, of state and federal laws.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Programs such as Mosaic help bridge the “services cliff” over which many young people with autism tumble as they age out of the special education system offered through their local public schools; that happens when they receive a diploma or turn 21, whichever comes first. It was going to be an extension of high school.

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