The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2016

If one looks and listens closely, black reform advocates and charter leaders are responding to the mythology that black people don’t want charter schools or reform in general. We are never surprised and are always encouraged by black educators who make systems work—including those in charters. The report found: “A new $2.3

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Charter School K-12 Advocacy Tradition 50

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

“I’m afraid of her not succeeding in school,” said Kerrach, of his older daughter; he adds that his wife speaks Moroccan Arabic, not French, to the girls at home. Like most of the people interviewed for this article, Kerrach spoke to me in French, through a translator.) Like the highest-performing charter schools in different U.S.

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Teaching Education Government Tradition 90

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Eventually, the two found housing outside the Temecula Valley Unified School District her son had attended for years. The traditional level of funding to support homelessness has left many districts struggling to fulfill the law’s requirements. Chalkbeat journalist Lori Higgins contributed to this article.

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Advocacy Government Public School High School 90

ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

McMahons effort comes as school vouchers and education savings accounts are making gains in states across the country. Researchers and advocates draw a connection to charter schools, emphasizing that charters offer an example of how choice options might shape up. Isidore charter school. That's how the St.

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Charter School Tradition Public School Education Policy 86

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Two years ago, Isaac Paine Elementary won a competitive grant from the Rhode Island Office of Innovation to become a showcase “lighthouse school,” part of a statewide push to bring tech into education. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support.

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Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

On June 1, the TEA took over Houston’s school district, removing the superintendent and elected board. Critics say it’s an effort by a Republican governor to impose his preferred policies, including more charter schools, on the state’s largest city, whose mayor is a Democrat and whose population is two-thirds Black or Hispanic.

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Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

What is this article about?”. I wasn’t sure how to explain to a rising high-school junior why I’d followed her and her classmates to Belize. Douglass High School, the Ninth Ward charter school where she works, and she’d told me, in passing, that she planned to take twenty-five kids to Belize.

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Charter School High School Cultures Public School 100

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

asked an NPR article responding to last week’s shattering decision in Janus v. I also saw Democrats claim political agnosticism, working alongside the likes of Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, who also tried to convert more traditional schools to charters. Mary Fallin. Photo by J Pat Carter/Getty Images. “Is percent).

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Charter School Leadership Library Government 88

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Businessman Paul Campbell speaks before students at the Academy of Seminole, a charter school he founded in rural Oklahoma. Campbell said the “thesis” of the school is that “on day one of your ninth grade, literally hour one … we start talking about what you want to do with your life.” Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Charter School Library High School Public School 104

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools. About 92 percent of Native students attend traditional public schools and 8 percent attend BIE schools.) The schools mascot is the eagle.

Education 111

Education Elementary School Government K-12 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Her daughter, 12, and two sons, 11 and 10, started school, and Williams got a job in medical billing in Jasper, 30 minutes from Birmingham. The plan was for her children to follow in another longtime neighborhood tradition. But if the white parents in Gardendale get their way, that 46-year-old tradition may come to an end.

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Government Education Charter School High School 111