The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Children who shouldn’t be paddled are paddled anyway, usually when parent letters get lost, or because school officials don’t check their lists before doling out corporal punishment, a problem documented both inside and outside Covington County. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Some have been approved even while their communities were still under active school desegregation court orders, and in one case even after residents implored the federal court to step in and bar the school from opening. Jackson says a coalition of Reynolds allies took over the school board in 2005. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Charter School Public School Tradition K-12 112

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

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

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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Advocacy Education Private School Leadership 138

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

In the window of a Morton Catholic outreach center, a sign in both Spanish and English seeks recruits: “Hang live birds for processing in a humane manner. School officials were unaware of the Supreme Court’s 1975 ruling in Plyer vs. Doe , which required schools to register students regardless of their immigration status.

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Elementary School K-12 Teaching Middle School 99

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically. He marched in an elementary school graduation ceremony in June 2018, sporting a blue polyester robe while his mom and stepdad clapped and took pictures. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Proof Points.

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Elementary School Middle School K-12 Charter School 132

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X, the notion that separate and equal is not only possible, but in some cases preferable, has been a rallying point for those who believe that black educators should be the ones designing and leading schools for black children. Related: Early evidence of a ‘Trump effect’ on bullying in schools.

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Charter School Private School Heritage High School 111

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. Department of Health and Human Services.

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