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MARCH 1, 2022

In some school districts, a specific diagnosis — and even the first-hand testimony of a neuropsychologist — can be crucial for accessing the best services. Those can range from occupational and speech therapy to small group time with a teacher to a publicly funded spot in a specialized private school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

New Orleans, which at 25 percent has the highest percentage of students attending private schools , mimics national trends. White- and middle-class folk showing others that it’s not a risk to send a child to a good school with lots of black and brown kids — now that’s real reform.

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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. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Many high school students aren’t ready for college, lacking both academic and independent living skills, research shows. Exclusive private schools and charter schools like High Tech High are pioneering other innovative ideas. But making better use of senior year is about more than dual enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

A more nuanced view of how blended learning is working in India can be seen in a 2015 report done by the membership and advocacy group CoSN. The new digital efforts come at a time of deep concern over the decline of education standards in India, both in government and private schools.

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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. But when she went to take the SAT at a private school in a wealthier town, Rascon said, she realized that “I was the only Latina in the room.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They also can, and often do, circumvent the public system entirely by hiring private reading tutors or sending their children to private schools focused on reading remediation. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Parents say the instruction at Pre-K 4 SA is as good as any they’ve seen at private schools. If Pre-K 4 SA hadn’t been available, said Denise Ojeda, “I would not have been able to send my son to a school like this.” Ten percent of Pre-K 4 SA spots are reserved for tuition-paying families.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund. Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. Like Santiago, some frustrated parents are turning to private schools to serve their kids.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents. Plus, by the time she came to grips with the unrelenting nature of the investigations, the December deadline for applying to specialized schools had already passed. She looked into private schools before deciding they were too expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it. Kast says she would love to enroll him at Old Dominion, but the school does not have a special-education program. Most private schools in the state don’t. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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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. In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

For Jefferson, the window is narrowing on making a decision on where — and how — her nephew will return to school. Public schools in Holmes County will start school online next month. She also spoke at a virtual gathering of the Poor People’s Campaign, an advocacy group.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Batchelor and another former school board member, Bret Gist, recalled hearing from longtime residents who were enrolling their children in private schools or leaving Russellville because they didn’t want their kids to be “the minority.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2018

New research shows that private schools are contributing to America’s educational woes. Public schools have long been scrutinized. It’s long past time we took a critical look at private schools. educational system based on a bedrock of evidence that its public schools were failing.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program.

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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. Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy.

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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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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. The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

That’s because there aren’t enough decent private schools to serve at-risk kids. Many of the private schools that clamor to take voucher kids — think about the market here — are desperate for enrollment. But these student-desperate private schools too often fail to deliver. Discipline! Achievement!”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. But beyond this day-to-day advocacy, critics see an organization with larger aims of discrediting teachers unions and public education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

“Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s not always clear, however that this money goes directly to schools and parents: In Arizona, millions of dollars also went to businesses and non-school spending, a recent investigation found. The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2019

Second, advocacy groups have gotten really smart about leveraging their interventions to improve graduation rates. Organizations such as College Advising Corps offer smart college counseling that uses data to send high school graduates to colleges that will help them earn degrees — and avoid the colleges that are likely to fail them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

The movement has grown despite a lack of the resources available to public schools, without the air of exclusivity of private schools, and absent the brand of the college prep education of parochial schools. On the ACT, they score above the public school average but below that for private schools.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 14, 2025

definition of genocide); miseducating students that advocacy for Palestinian lives is inherently anti-Semitic; perpetuating a consequential fallacy that justice is an either-or proposition; flouting the espoused value of free speech; and ceding critical dialogue, discernment and action when lives are literally at stake.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades. Lawmakers in Ohio in recent years have lifted income caps on those vouchers, along with their requirement that to be eligible, families must live in an area with schools designated as failing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I also share the NCD’s concern that voucher programs could encourage segregation , given that students without disabilities will be far more likely to select into private schools, leaving a disproportionate number of students with disabilities in public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

That’s certainly what the advocacy group Network for Public Education thinks. “ The Danger Is Now Real ,” they write, and expect “a new era of federal hostility toward public schools.” This blinkered view excludes 7,800 tax-funded and government-authorized charter schools that enroll 3.7 It also excludes another 4.7

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2021

Taken together, school facilities emit about 72 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year , the equivalent of about 18 coal power plants or 8.6 million homes, according to the climate advocacy organization Generation180. Completed in 2019, the $36.2 Credit: CMTA.

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