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APRIL 29, 2019

She had taken and retaken the ACT, trying to get a score high enough to get into college, with a scholarship. The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. Money and attention turned to the new, privately run schools.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. Her uncle turned around in the front passenger seat.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

On the verge of finishing high school, Allison Dinsmore doesn’t know yet what she’ll do after she graduates. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. .” NEWARK, Calif. —

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ This is the final story in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Matt and the school’s 21 other students — many of whom, like Matt, abused drugs for years — face a daily struggle to stay clean. Independence Academy is one of 33 so-called recovery schools in the United States, public high schools that serve students whose lives and educations have been derailed by drug abuse.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Related: Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment. Charter schools were established, in part, as laboratories of innovation to help support district improvement. It found a perfect partner in a district school just a mile down the road. The partner was the Jeremiah E.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — It was homecoming week, and for the first time there was a buzz in the halls of KIPP Renaissance Charter High School about Friday’s big football game. Students were discussing plans to go, and alumni were coming by the school in the city’s 9th Ward to buy tickets. Photo: Emmanuel Felton/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. For starters, the study took place at nine charter schools in Colorado, stretching from Denver to Fort Collins. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Through Teach for America, he was assigned to teach in a charter school. After Katrina, the state legislature had wrested control of New Orleans’ public schools from the local school board and turned most of the schools into charters.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

It wasn’t long into Damon Holmes’ tenure as new principal of Malcolm X Shabazz High School this fall that Sharon Cook, an administrator at Shabazz, knew the school and students were going to be okay under the new guy. high schools. high schools? Principal Damon Holmes talks to junior Latifah Hinds.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At Capital City Public Charter School, eighth grader Nia Reese delivers a 40-minute presentation aimed at convincing panelists that she is prepared to move on to the campus’ high school. But at this school, that’s not enough. Capital City Public Charter School serves students throughout the Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

Schoolwide, the share of students who were chronically absent declined from 35 percent in March 2023 to 23 percent in March 2024 — one of the steepest declines among Massachusetts high schools. But to make more progress, experts say, schools must get creative to address their students’ needs. You get farther behind.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. 1 to wait an entire year to start school. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A Mathematica study of 480 low-performing schools found that the federally funded turnaround efforts failed to boost math or reading scores or high school graduation or college enrollment rates. It seemed that the whole notion of quick school turnarounds was a misguided failure. The results weren’t great.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

School district leaders there, many of whom started their careers in small-town classrooms, now grapple with big-city problems: large class sizes, stretched budgets, crowded school buildings and too few staff, especially those with the cultural and language skills to serve this region’s diversifying student base.

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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

JUNE 29, 2022

She connects students in the small urban school district to counselors, social services and therapy. She spends most of her day walking the halls of Fairfield Preparatory High School, a 7-12 grade school in Fairfield, Alabama. Pictured is the front door of Thompson High School in the Alabaster, Alabama.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Every student at Mingus Union High School in Cottonwood, Ariz. However, last year the school decided to take a different direction in categorizing students. She had missed a lot of school due to a medical ailment and her grades suffered as a result. “It Related: Charter school leaders should talk more about racism.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

The charter school, which serves kindergarten through eighth graders, is the second in a chain started by Lynda Resnick and her husband, Stewart. Lynda Resnick, owner of The Wonderful Company on the charter schools she and her husband have opened in California’s Central Valley. They own The Wonderful Company, the $4.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This wall at Skyline High School in Mesa, Arizona is part of “Rainbow in the Clouds, “a lesson in the Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) model of SEL. Credit: Image provided by Skyline High School. The school offers adult yoga classes, support groups and incentives for staff to participate.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

DeAndre Arnold has attended the Barbers Hill Independent School District his entire life; in high school, he grew his hair into locs. Mystic Valley Regional Charter School gave multiple detentions to twin sisters Deanna and Mya Cook for their hair extensions and prevented them from attending their junior prom in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

While Vertus High School doesn’t assign homework, Clovis Meikle, 17, says he works on his online classes at home to get ahead in advance of basketball season. Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. I would hire every qualified licensed teacher, our schools would, that we could find. Students walk the halls of Helena-West Helena’s Central High School between class periods.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

That style of discipline has been a hallmark at the charter schools that defined the first part of her career. Leave this field empty if you're human: Neal got her start in Teach for America in 2002 and founded a charter high school in Chicago in 2008 that became one of the city’s best. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

I’m a former high school teacher, and professors have a lot more say in the decisions that impact their jobs,” he said. Schools vary, but in schools where teachers have more voice, there is better retention.” In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. LOS ANGELES — When students at one California charter network graduate from high school, they get more than just a diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Some of the same researchers found in a separate study published by Johns Hopkins University that low-income black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are significantly more likely to graduate high school and consider attending college. This transcends school type.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. It’s past time the DOE issued guidance, telling schools to leave black students’ hair alone.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. teacher and parent living in Finland, I understand the concern. But this conclusion misses the forest for the trees.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

. — Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. Kettle Moraine School District – Wales, WI. Kettle Moraine School District has created charter schools like KM Perform within its traditional high school to accommodate student interests.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Last year, ss homecoming and winter holidays were upon us, recent alumni came by the school to check on the place they couldn’t wait to leave six months before. This is one of my favorite phenomena of teaching high school. How do you assess schools using a letter grade based primarily on test scores?

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Twice a week Ricky Carmona, 16, leaves his La Verne home to attend school in makeshift classrooms a few doors down from the Boot Barn at a nearby strip mall. Less than a week after the suspension, Stephanie Carmona, Ricky’s aunt and guardian, received a letter: The principal had recommended Ricky for an “involuntary transfer” out of Bonita.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Administrators from Henry County Schools, southwest of Atlanta; School District 51 in Mesa County, Colorado; and CICS West Belden, a Chicago International Charter School campus, discussed their efforts to personalize learning during a panel at the recent iNACOL symposium in Orlando, Florida.

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