The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschooling mom Andrea Forte, right, pauses in her reading to answer a question from her daughter, Elena Forte, left, during Elena and her brother Devon’s language arts and history class time upstairs in the Forte family home on Aug. On the ACT, they score above the public school average but below that for private schools.

K-12 80

K-12 Private School Charter School Advocacy 80

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. She also spoke at a virtual gathering of the Poor People’s Campaign, an advocacy group.

Heritage 100

Heritage Advocacy Public School Private School 100

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.

Advocacy 104

Advocacy Charter School Political Science K-12 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. schools becomes more pronounced in many places, and as hate crimes against minorities increase in schools and communities and the U.S. The trade-off.

Charter School 98

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school.

Private School 139

Private School High School Public School Economics 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

Elementary School 144

Elementary School Government Public School Human Rights 144

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. That ain’t Texas,” said Rev. Republican state Rep.

Private School 128

Private School Public School High School Political Science 128

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. This means that taxpayers are footing the bill for parents in private and religious schools.

Social Justice 70

Social Justice Advocacy Private School Public School 70

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. Related: While the rest of the world invests more in education, the U.S. spends less.

Elementary School 118

Elementary School Middle School K-12 Charter School 118

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The 50-50 Senate confirmation vote – broken only by Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaker – means the pro-choice DeVos, who attended private schools and sent her children to them – will take the helm. Not anymore. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images. King , the former U.S.

Education 89

Education Charter School Advocacy Private School 89