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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

When it started, Fiske claims Mysa was the first school to call itself a microschool. But these days, microschools — loosely defined as schools with relatively few students that function as private schools or learning centers for homeschool students — seem to be everywhere.

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Isn’t desegregation a measure of educational quality?

The Hechinger Report

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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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools

The Hechinger Report

Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained.

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We need an education commission to take a critical look at private schools

The Hechinger Report

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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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

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.” But a soccer program Grimes started has received perhaps the biggest response.

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OPINION: President Trump’s school choice proposal leaves students with disabilities behind

The Hechinger Report

Under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), all public schoolstraditional and charter — are required to provide a free and appropriate education to students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Private and religious schools, on the other hand, have no such obligation.