The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2022

The program uses taxpayer dollars to help rural families who live far from a public school attend a private school instead. Up for debate now is what the broader effects of the ruling might be, as well as its impact on public school funding. It would not apply to any state operating a school voucher program.

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Private School Human Rights Advocacy Public School 25

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

“This is just another systemic disadvantage that we put in front of low-income kids and kids of color,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research at The Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy organization. The grade-point average of students at private high schools who took the SAT climbed between 1998 and 2016 from 3.25

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Private School Public School High School Advocacy 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

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Social Justice Advocacy Human Rights High School 131

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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Elementary School Advocacy Public School Research 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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High School Charter School Economics Leadership 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents. But I think it’s fair for us to expect other human services professionals — whether they be in education, health care, anybody who is a mandated reporter — to use their independent judgment and discretion and understand there are consequences to making that call.”.

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Charter School Public School Advocacy Humanities 111