The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. Shawn Clemons, director of accountability at Hickory Public Schools.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2022

Altogether, the ongoing impact of Covid-19, coupled with political turmoil at the local level, has likely added as many as 3,000 vacancies beyond normal attrition during the last and current school years in the approximately 13,500 public school districts in the U.S., Collins said. The new hire will be his fifth.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Partly because it’s a grassroots movement without clear leadership or an elaborate organization. Rather, it is more subdued, and is focused on public schools, which despite their status as public institutions, rarely open themselves up to public scrutiny. Why do families choose to opt out?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

The disparity is rooted in race, class and gender : Child care teachers are more likely to be female, less likely to be white, and more likely to come from lower-income backgrounds than public school teachers. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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. Talbott was not the only teacher of color questioning their future at the school. Only 7 percent of teachers identify as Black. “A

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

I think that there are some big questions that we have to ask as a state after the Governor’s school funding veto. How big a priority are our public schools? Yes, some of our districts have teacher leadership monies in addition to the 1.25% allowable growth funding. Here are a few that currently are on my mind… 1.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Annual test scores in math and reading helped determine the future of teachers’ jobs, classroom funding and, in the most dire cases, whether or not a school remained open.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2022

That is: schools should respond to what their customers want. Public schools are publicly funded. Consequently, they need to advance the public interest. Hard as it may be to swallow, sometimes our own desires don't always perfectly align w/ the public good. School often sucks. Advocacy is exhausting.

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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. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. In that role, she visited schools around the city and was shocked by the disparities in school building facilities and resources, she said. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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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. Chris Bogans with his student mentor, Hayleigh Weissenbach.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. There have been highly publicized problems in some districts that have adopted the program.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Through the specific college knowledge and self-advocacy skills they are gaining in their training and work, peer leaders are themselves succeeding in college at higher rates and being positioned for multiple career pathways. In the policy world, there are few programs that don’t involve some kind of cost-benefit analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Now, many worry that the district won’t rebound — and will head back into the cycle of rotating leadership, low performance and lack of public trust that existed before the turnaround. Morgan isn’t new to the district, having worked in Cleveland’s school system from 2014 to 2016 as a network leader overseeing a subset of its schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Researchers began to observe inequitable results in the late 1970s as American public schools began evaluating more children to comply with the mandates of the federal special education law, since renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. Students at the Luis Valdez Leadership Academy, a charter school on San Jose’s low-income east side. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 For evidence of that, all people have to do is glance at their local public schools, said Murdock.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Baray, a former teacher and principal in the Austin schools, has also taught at Texas State University, where she conducted extensive research on educational leadership, community involvement, and school improvement. The program’s CEO, Sarah Baray, says the approach makes a big difference.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Landry, a seasoned educator, found a narrative way to temper his overly ambitious score projections in a 2010 application for Esperanza Charter School, by including frank language about students’ level of need. Ken Campbell, director of charter schools for the Louisiana Department of Education between 2007 and early 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 For evidence of that, all people have to do is glance at their local public schools, said Murdock.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If the only approach schools took to address this crisis was hiring more counselors, they would ignore what these Detroit youth organizers are highlighting: the underlying policies and practices in schools that exacerbate the fear and anxiety immigrant students experience in schools.

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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. David Bloomfield, a professor of Education Leadership at Brooklyn College.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2021

“Betsy DeVos has been a total disaster for students’ civil rights for four years as Education Secretary and gets no credit now for resigning 13 days before inauguration,” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights coalition, said in a tweet.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Howard Fuller, former superintendent of Milwaukee’s public schools. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools. Fuller’s remedy? The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2021

As the needs of the post-pandemic economy evolve and new Democratic leadership gets settled in Washington, several fabled ideas for revamping the Pell Grant program could have new life pumped into them. Now, they rely on private scholarships and in some places, state aid and in-state tuition at public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While the county is about 16 percent white and 82 percent black, the public schools are nearly all black. Fewer than 30 white students are enrolled in the entire district, a steep decline from the fall of 1966, when about 6,000 black students and 1,000 white students attended the county’s schools. still serves students today.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Zambia, education in Catholic versus secular primary schools decreases support for progressive gender attitudes. Across Latin America, citizens who attend private versus public schools have less support for the social contract.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Public schools seem like a logical place to teach when and how to intervene, since most people attend them at some point, but actually getting the classes into schools has not been easy. He said he usually doesn’t handle that many evaluations over the course of an entire school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The median income is about $33,000 and almost a quarter of the population is considered to be living in poverty, a poverty that is concentrated in households sending children to the county’s public schools, where the vast majority of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Some in town think schools should use it more often.

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