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APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It The city’s public schools had already shifted to virtual learning, which dampened interest in taking his program online. Jodi Grant, Afterschool Alliance.

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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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MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. The high schools they attend are also much less likely to have many college counselors. No one in her family has ever gotten a degree.

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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. Roofs need repair.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was proof that his initiative to break up large campuses into smaller, more personal schools was working. She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day. On its face, such claims seem fair.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. The E-rate program to connect schools with the web and more technology has grown to just under $4 billion, helping many rural schools. Photo: Alan Richard. DILLON, S.C. —

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

This is not as easy of a job as the pastoral campus in these comparatively affluent surroundings suggests, teeming as it is with earnest-looking youngsters in neat school uniforms. Thirty-seven percent come from families with low incomes. That’s up from six times more likely in 1970. Even the highest-income U.S.

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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 14, 2023

Last year, a similar data breach of the Los Angeles school district led to thousands of students’ psychological records uploaded to the dark web. In 2020, Baltimore County Public Schools was hit with a cyberattack that disrupted the district’s remote learning programs, froze its operations and cost the school system nearly $10 million.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Jacqueline Rodriguez, vice president of research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said she worries the bills will discourage LGBTQ individuals from pursuing teaching careers by sending the message that “this is not the profession to pursue if you want to bring your whole self to work every day.”.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Hostility towards transgender and gender-expansive students is a common experience in public schools and according to the GLSEN report, LGBTQIA+ students experience higher rates of verbal and physical harassment in schools, as well as discriminatory school policies.

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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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APRIL 22, 2020

Faced with the unprecedented challenge of lengthy school closures because of coronavirus, the nation’s roughly 13,000 public school districts are scrambling to cope. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020.

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APRIL 26, 2022

He’s encountered subs in the hallway, looking for the library or a place to make copies of classwork. Unlike the other subs — many of them parent volunteers or people looking for a little extra work — he’s a full-time, salaried employee with health benefits and a long-term contract with Everett Public Schools , north of Seattle.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

But despite those new expectations, most school districts in the state where the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till mobilized black Americans still use textbooks that give local civil rights milestones short shrift. Before 2011, Mississippi public school students weren’t required to learn about the Civil Rights Movement at all.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Simply being able to post the sign-up sheet in school was a victory of sorts. For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

While he was in elementary school, Taheem’s classrooms were clearly under-resourced, with a constant shortage of pencils and classroom floors so damaged that wood slabs were gouged out. Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room. spends less.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” Meanwhile, according to documents published by WHYY shortly after the election, school administrators were imposing new restrictions.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

The number of book bans in schools and libraries nearly tripled during the 2023-24 school year to more than 10,000, across red and blue states, according to a recent PEN America report. To accomplish this aim, more pre-K-12 educators should participate in local school board meetings and run for open school board seats.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

The proportion of students in public schools who are Hispanic is even higher in some states, including California ( 56 percent ), Texas ( 53 percent ) and Florida ( 38 percent ). A spiral stairway in the library at Dominican University displays the flags of countries from which the families of students there have come.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

What sounds like increased protection for children is part of a Republican campaign slogan, one that may or may not resonate with our country’s fragile public-school parents, teachers and children in the post-pandemic era. As the ideological debates fade, the giant challenges facing the nation’s public schools loom ever larger.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

over Labor Day weekend, a sign shows the group’s concern about the culture of American public schools. At the first Moms for Liberty summit, in Tampa in 2022, attendees were invited to a well-choreographed unveiling of the dangers facing children in public school — and an urgent call to get involved. Think of it.

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