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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2019

It’s almost as if we’ve returned to the days of “separate but equal” — wherein political leaders find it easier to advocate for increased funding to some schools, predominantly low-income and minority schools, rather than call for all schools to have integrated student bodies. help to end school segregation?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. McDonogh 35 was one of the few schools that weathered the storm mostly intact. They see them as taking away voters’ right to have a say in how schools are run.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Coahoma County will be home to the first rural charter school in the state. Rural charter schools are often seen as a threat to the scant resources available for rural public schools. The first rural charter school in Mississippi will open next August in the Delta town of Clarksdale. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. Related: Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. During the school year prior to Hurricane Katrina, there were 67 pre-kindergarten seats for every 100 public-school kindergarten students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2016

The major advocacy group for public charter schools is concerned that failing online charter schools may be hurting the credibility of the movement as a whole. Further, the group argued it might be necessary for virtual (or online-only) charter schools to be separated from the charter designation completely. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the first story, or revelation, the overarching theme is the stunning amount of sharing that went on about this elite group (roughly the top 20 percent of all charter schools, the schools that add roughly a year-and-a-half of learning for every year a student spends there). . It really didn’t have to turn out like it did.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — The central tenet of nearly any successful recruitment strategy is to emphasize the positives and downplay problems, but Josh Densen was engaging in a different kind of hard sell at a school tour back in early November. I believe Bricolage is a school for all kids, but not all adults.”. Read more about Race and Equity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

There are significant differences between schools where children start at or above grade level and where children start below grade level Schools where students enter at or above grade level Schools where students enter below grade level Schools where students enter below grade level, but students grow at least 1.3

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Edthena

AUGUST 17, 2015

Amanda Huza, middle school principal of Equality Charter School in The Bronx, knew that video had the potential to be a powerful tool for the teachers and coaches on her staff. The post Equality Charter School Gave Teachers More Ownership, Time Using Edthena appeared first on the Edthena blog.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. Children who had won lotteries to attend these charter schools had higher reading scores than students who lost the lotteries. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

For starters, the study took place at nine charter schools in Colorado, stretching from Denver to Fort Collins. The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

During talks with a K-12 public charter school in Phoenix called Arizona State University Preparatory Academy, Khan thought he’d found a way to bring quality education to top students all over the world. “A Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.

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Edthena

JUNE 6, 2024

The Big Ideas in Education podcast recently welcomed Dr. Andi Morency, the Executive Director and Principal of the Honors Academy of Literature charter school in Reno, Nevada. The coaching cycles align with the school’s customized evaluation framework and support continuous professional growth.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

School choice plays a role in recent segregation Why is segregation creeping back up again? The expiration of court orders that mandated school integration and the expansion of school choice policies, including the rapid growth of charter schools, explains all of the increase in segregation from 2000 onward, said Reardon.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2024

Recy Benjamin Dunn is CEO of Ascend Public Charter Schools, a network of K-12 public charter schools serving nearly 6,000 students in 17 schools across Brooklyn. We will hold ourselves to it and continue to move forward, and I remain hopeful that we’re moving in the right direction.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2021

(School Districts, Charter Networks, Organizations). Schools Everett Public Schools National Association of Charter School Authorizers. Atlanta Public Schools Friendship Public Charter Schools Native American Community Academy. Big Picture Learning IDEA Public Schools Oakland Reach.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

Over the course of the calendar year, we are hosting Design Studios in partnership with seven school districts and four charter schools across the country: Middletown City School District (OH). Princeton School District (OH). DC Bilingual Public Charter School (District of Columbia).

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Our first edtech peer learning cohort (2022-23) featured nine teams, ranging from a single-site charter school to a large urban district, as well as a regional team of smaller, rural districts. Each team worked on addressing a specific problem of practice in their school system.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2021

This past year has forced schools to make significant changes to their practices. It has also prompted teachers and administrators to reimagine education and to rearticulate a new vision for their schools — as I’ve seen at “ no excuses ” charter schools, which I have spent the last decade studying and observing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bryan Martinez, a senior at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., charter school may be a front-runner in providing financial education, but in recent years, many others have followed suit. In 2020, the NAACP issued a resolution calling for more financial literacy programs in K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Supreme Court tax-credit decision won’t change much in terms of public-school spending requirements. Yet their expansion has been relatively modest in comparison to that of charter schools. This brings us back to charter schools. The ripple effects may even be felt by the charter-school sector.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has encouraged librarians to follow social distancing and manage traffic flow in stacks, nearly a quarter of school-level librarians told the AASL in an August survey that their school’s library would not be open or used at all. Credit: Jessica Shearer.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Shara Hegde is the CEO of Alpha Public Schools , a network of charter schools in San Jose, CA. Silvia Scandar Mahan is the president and CEO of Cristo Rey San José Jesuit High School and Corporate Work Study Program. Together, we can ensure that the door to higher education remains open for all students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For the same reason, school districts with a high proportion of charter schools fared better too. Charter school staff provided a second pool of teachers for the public schools to hire away. Meanwhile, large school districts that span an entire county and are surrounded by rural areas fared less well.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

birth and immigration rates have been falling since before the COVID-19 outbreak, decreasing the number of school-aged children,” according to an analysis by the firm. The pandemic accelerated these trends and sparked a shift in enrollment from traditional public schools to charter schools, homeschools, and private schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

One Catholic school principal who did admit him quickly rescinded the offer after a teacher objected to having him in her class. The long list of general, special-ed, Catholic and charter schools that turned my son away indicate how little choice actually exists, despite the marketing of ESA proponents.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Lauren Koehler, executive director of San Francisco Unified School District’s Enrollment Center, counsels a parent hoping to enroll her child in a district school, but only if the charter school she applied to doesn’t extend an offer first. She’d also need charter school enrollment to stop increasing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2020

I work for a nonprofit charter school in Chicago, teaching special education to third-graders who attend general-education classes. When the coronavirus struck, my school switched to remote learning. Now third grade is almost over, and districts are announcing their plans for remote summer school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

School closures and remote learning have upended classrooms, relationships and support systems, putting students at higher risk of developing anxiety and depression. I teach at the Pioneer Charter School of Science in Everett, Massachusetts, a city just north of Boston. In the meantime, we’ll keep our Zoom cameras rolling.

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