The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. You’re taught really about cultural competencies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. For over three decades, Foster worked for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight center in Huntsville, Alabama. Trade Industry.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That movie, which everyone in Silicon Valley and in the culture at large was talking about, was “The Social Network,” depicting the contentious creation of Facebook. We got 400 applications the first year,” says Strachman, who had previously founded a project-based charter school called Innovations Academy. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Iturralde has worked at Kingsburg Elementary Charter School District, a five-campus district in the rural Central Valley of California, for seven years. There, a majority of students are Hispanic, and over half are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to EdData and the California Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school focused on the arts and offered a project-based curriculum, and Otto had always been creative. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces. Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. Parents and advocates have also called for more teachers who can relate culturally to black New Orleans children and make connections with the communities they serve.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

The plan means that unlike schools in many big urban districts, every school here has some level of racial and economic diversity. If he had his druthers, he said, schools would have longer hours, provide children with three meals and help them do their homework. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. The moral imperative.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The performance of minority students on standardized tests at Ridgeview historically has lagged behind that of white students, according to staff, who note that black and Hispanic students are much more likely to come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. The volley of interaction seemed designed to grab—and retain—students’ attention. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

Since 1967, the number of Catholic schools in the United States has fallen from 12,814 to 6,525, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. Since 1967, the number of Catholic schools in the United States has fallen from 12,814 to 6,525, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. Photo: Ben Stocking.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

“To have a place in a crèche, you have to fill out paperwork and make a demand,” said Eric Charbonnier, a Paris-based analyst in the early childhood and schools division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Like the highest-performing charter schools in different U.S. It’s bureaucratic.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Within a single generation, his family has staked a claim to social and economic opportunities often viewed as out of reach in low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods. Drexel is the lead partner in the grant, which encompasses seven public schools, including one charter school, in a two-square-mile area.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. A lack of morale and cultural competency.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. Jonathan Johnson, founder of Rooted School. Running a high school like the Google campus can be tricky, though.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Chen, who was hired as the school’s first principal of color in late 2017, said a better description might have been “exclusive,” and not just because of the $12,500 to $20,500 tuition, but because of the cultural rigidity that clearly delineated outsiders and insiders. Gant said he thinks about “how Jesus would do school.…

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Encouraging blacks and Hispanics, both growing populations, to pursue STEM careers is both an equity issue and crucial for the economy, according to Rodney Andrews, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. It was a culture shock.”. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

In a push to raise test scores and other metrics, such as high school graduation rates, the state of Louisiana took over most of the city’s schools and converted them to publicly funded, privately run charter schools. There’s the realization now that our schools are adequate but they’re not great.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. The school put on a festival to fundraise for medical bills resulting from his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

The evidence that racism is directed at black people to impede their social and economic progress keeps growing (and growing), but discrimination persists. Black people, including black academics, have long accepted research that shows racism is a causal factor in the social and economic outcomes of black people.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

While the district has done social-emotional work in a piecemeal way in the past, all schools will now ask students to spend 30 minutes greeting each other and talking through their feelings each day, said Abigail Gray, deputy chief of school climate and culture.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They ran into an economic wall that has hit communities of color the hardest, but which has also blocked many residents of this 98 percent white county. The school had fights in the hallways and tedium in the classrooms. There are also no charter schools in Kentucky, which have split public school resources elsewhere.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

I am a black man and strong advocate of charter schools, as a founder and full-time teacher at one in New York. Nowhere is the inequity of paternalism and structural racism more insidious than in the charter-school sector. Look no further than KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First and Success Academies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

The calculus that the school district uses to determine economic status includes median income along with other factors, such as parental level of education, home ownership and single parent status. Dallas school leaders are finding that these deliberately diverse schools are popular with parents on both ends of the spectrum.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

He also pitched a new, five-year strategic direction that will emphasize tribal sovereignty and cultural education both promises the bureau made in its reform agenda more than a decade ago. The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: If the anger that propelled Trump’s win is economic, can higher education fix it? In Massachusetts, voters thwarted a measure to expand charter schools. For too many, the best choice is a quality neighborhood school. It’s time to change the focus to what educational justice is really about.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5 Vance, meanwhile, made education culture war issues central to his 2022 run for Senate. billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

But the federal civil rights law is often ignored, misunderstood or blatantly violated in public schools. A charter school in Louisiana required students to take a pregnancy test and then forced them out if they refused or tested positive. The social and economic implications for these teenagers when they drop out are profound.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz does not support private-school vouchers, opposing statewide private-school voucher legislation introduced in 2021 by Republicans in Minnesota. — Walz, who signed the law in 2023, made Minnesota one of only eight states to have a universal school meal policy.

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