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The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Massachussets public charter schools are the best in the country by measures that include dramatically outperforming the districts from which their students come. A 2013 Stanford University study found that Boston charters were doing more to narrow achievement gaps than any other group of public schools in the country.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. Advocates want to move toward funding virtual schools based on performance.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 10, 2018
“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. The promise of greater efficiency has been an attractive argument for charters as states struggle to keep up with ever rising educational expenses.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 12, 2023
After years of disappointing, confusing and uneven results, charter schools are generally getting better at educating students. These schools, which are publicly financed but privately run, still have shortcomings and a large subset of them fail students, particularly those with disabilities. million students across 40 states.
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 23, 2020
Thank you, Jim Christensen, for sharing how the Arrow Academy Charter Schools in Texas have been adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Episode 020 is below.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2016
No one understands this struggle better than Sharolyn Miller, chief financial officer for Jackson Public Schools. All summer, Miller struggled to fix a failing HVAC system the high school couldn’t afford — just as JPS found $600,000 for two new charter schools in the city. JPS has problems: 21 failing schools, a 67.7
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