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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But their families have managed to give them a jump-start through additional after-school programs, tutors and other resources, he says. Students in upper-track math courses are no smarter or better at math than others. The district also should have devoted more resources for teacher support, such as coaching, he adds.

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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

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

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

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. said Tufts’ Jiménez.

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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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