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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school? Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

ATLANTA – It’s unclear to Tameka how — or even when — her children became unenrolled from Atlanta Public Schools. This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. But it was also about race and class.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data. Rochester City School District recorded the second most, with 854. Prior to his suspension, Martinez enjoyed school. He liked getting to see friends every day.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. Early in the summer of 2021, she started a job with a company working to build a new social studies curriculum for public schools and districts. “My

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That fall he was briefly admitted to a psychiatric hospital after threatening to hurt himself—just after he started seventh grade at Sobesky Academy, a public school in a suburb of Denver. I hope when that’s done it will be a guidepost for schools so that they don’t just call whatever they do a threat assessment,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. “It

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Across the country in California, worsening fires, floods and droughts have forced some educators to contemplate a school calendar marked by natural disasters. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. And last fall, the Kincade Fire forced the largest evacuation in Sonoma County history.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The push for equity among PTAs in those cities hit sometimes fierce resistance before advocates found ways to calm fears that wealthy parents might disinvest from — or leave — public schools. Research suggests the practice has no significant impact on overall giving to schools.). Less than a quarter of public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. Jackson Public Schools lost a bus in May after an engine fire. Those options matter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? 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. We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Amy O'Leary, executive director of Strategies for Children, a policy and advocacy organization in Massachusetts, is encouraged by what’s happening in her state. We had the first public school in the country, the first public library, and we’re committed to leading on early education and care. — I feel hopeful.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I am the executive director of an education advocacy organization in Oregon, and we’ve seen educators, parents, students and school board members step up to advocate for students’ rights to learn from history and feel seen in school. Fortunately, many people across the country are working to prevent this from happening.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Unlike public school districts, universities are not legally required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to identify students with disabilities or cover evaluation costs. I embarked on a mentally exhausting pursuit for academic accommodations that made me doubt my belonging and ability to succeed at my school.

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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. Dixon has three daughters in the district.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. and in its schools. describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Chad Gestson, superintendent of the Phoenix Union High School District, walking with Cheri Hardwick, principal at the Academies at South Mountain. Credit: Phoenix Union High School District. last spring, public schools across the country were forced to grapple with how best to educate their students while still protecting lives.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The effort is led by one of the most celebrated leaders of the blended- and personalized-learning movement, California-based charter network Summit Public Schools. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts. Lizzie Choi, chief program officer, Summit Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

. — In front of the iconic Old Manse, the oldest building in Arkansas constructed solely for the purpose of educating black students, there’s a plaque recounting the rich and poignant history of Arkansas Baptist College. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When New York City officials revamped the way public schools were funded more than a decade ago, they emphasized one goal above the others: Making school spending more equitable in the nation’s largest system. Related: A low-income Brooklyn school where 100 percent of black male students graduate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

In late 2014, the federal departments of justice and education released a joint letter urging school officials to improve education in juvenile detention facilities. The Youth Study Center has its own troubled history. Related: Formerly incarcerated, with a learning disability, she’s now a college grad.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

An analysis of Mississippi public school textbooks by the Hechinger Report and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows that, for at least some grades, all of the state’s 148 school districts rely on textbooks published before the model standards appeared as part of their social studies material.

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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. public schools were born. before they were 2 years old.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

DeVos “enthusiastically sent our taxpayer dollars to schools that explicitly and actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ students,” Eliza Byard, the executive director of the advocacy group GLSEN , said in a statement. Related: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Just 7 percent of America’s public school teachers were Black during the 2017-18 school year, while Black students make up 15 percent of the student population, according to the most recently available data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If former President Donald Trump wins a second term and enacts his hardline immigration policies, what happened in Mississippi could become a much more common occurrence affecting millions of children and their schools. history, tapping every resource at his disposal from local police to the National Guard and the military.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

While the vast majority of Native American and Alaska Native students attend traditional public schools — the BIE educates less than 10 percent of Native students — BIE students score significantly lower than their public school counterparts on standardized exams, and overall post some of the lowest scores of any student group.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Related: ‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South. For Jefferson, the window is narrowing on making a decision on where — and how — her nephew will return to school.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. This copy includes the adoption of the bill known as SB 150, which limits the rights of LGBTQ+ youth in the state’s public schools. Some of them were Meryl’s friends, others were new to Ketron.

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