The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The word “turnaround” itself is a nebulous catchall concept, encompassing everything from new leadership and staff to new rules and policies. Sometimes new leaders introduce a data-driven culture where students are frequently tested and both teachers and principals are judged by how much test scores improve.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

On May 25, the Nevada-based management group of the New Orleans charter school, Crescent Leadership Academy, announced the firing of its principal, Nicholas Dean. Rite of Passage , the chain that manages Crescent Leadership Academy, then determined he wasn’t a good fit for the job.

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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 25, 2023

In some cases, schools employ leaders who focus primarily on administration, not teaching, although decision making still happens collaboratively with teachers. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. At Avalon Charter School, in St. Last year, teachers earned just 76.5

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

AVID (which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination) is animated by a simple belief: Once children begin to see some success in school, their self-perceptions will shift so dramatically that they’ll commit to becoming stellar students — and this commitment will propel them through college.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Christopher House, a nonprofit that runs a high-performing elementary charter school and a small network of public preschools in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, has infused parental support into its model. Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“This is self-perpetuating,” said the superintendent, Patrick Sánchez, who is trying to change that culture and hangs out with students as a mentor and a coach. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. The school has made steady progress in increasing diversity on campus. Rensselaer’s student population is 15 percent black and Hispanic this year, according to statistics provided by the school. “It

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

To succeed intellectually and emotionally, she explained, students need “strong culture, engaging learning opportunities that feel relevant and connected to students’ lives, relationships, a sense of agency, and an opportunity to express their own opinions about their learning.” In education, metamorphosis requires more than mere tinkering.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In some schools [student/teacher conflict] would come down to … ‘This white lady doesn’t like me,’ and a cultural disconnect, but in this school absolutely not.”. The Net has taken things a step further than most schools, however. A second Net Charter School is expected to open in New Orleans in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

A March 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University showed that black teachers are more likely to have higher expectations for their black students; for example, white teachers were almost 40 percent less likely than their black counterparts to expect black students to finish high school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Like most educators, I believe that teachers and schools should be held accountable for how well they prepare their students, but just as I give students time to grow and develop, new charter schools like ours deserve the same time and support. How do you assess schools using a letter grade based primarily on test scores?

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

Black America, Black Literature and Black Liberation Once I completed my two-year commitment with Teach for America, I returned home to Dayton, Ohio where I taught downtown at a charter school. Although I had the support of school leadership and families, my literature selection was not immune from challenges outside the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These outstanding schools share seven key elements. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. The fifth element is school leadership. The first is differentiated instruction. Last but not least: a supportive superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. When the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) shut down, its 83 district-run schools and 33 charter schools served more than 49,000 students.

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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. It’s not a stop.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Until recently, education reform has prioritized the growth of charter schools, enforcement of strict discipline and high-stakes testing. As those ideas have produced less progress than anticipated, community school advocates hope their model can take over the mantle of reform. The stakes have become extremely high.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The school had fights in the hallways and tedium in the classrooms. The culture was pretty toxic when we got here,” said Roark, who began at the school as a guidance counselor in 2008. “To There are also no charter schools in Kentucky, which have split public school resources elsewhere.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Youth organizers in MIStudentsDream were encouraged by this policy, but they immediately had one major concern: What about charter schools? In Detroit, almost half of the student population attends a charter school. Unfortunately, there is no clear definition of a sanctuary school, much less a whole district.

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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. Gross agreed. They weren’t prepared to deal with their accent.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

The program allows some of North Carolina’s lowest-performing schools to have more flexibility like charter schools. Related: A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college. The principles of the model are similar to those that govern charter schools. We had a plan in mind,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. They love family.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Since the NAACP at its national convention voted on a resolution that placed a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates has been angry, well-financed and sometimes just plain mean leading up to a vote of ratification by the national board, which occurred this past weekend. Photo:Andre Perry.

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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

JUNE 7, 2017

Called Fuse RI, it is meant to nurture good ideas by having educators mentor teachers outside their own school districts and serve in leadership roles on administrative teams to help principals and superintendents plan how to use these new models of teaching and learning. It’s a lab state culture. It’s a lab state culture.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Just one-third of students rate their school culture positively, according to data released this week by the San Francisco-based non-profit YouthTruth Student. Related: Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students look like schools for affluent white kids? A voice of reason from Washington.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Demand will likely grow because the supply will not: Voters in Massachusetts overwhelming rejected a ballot question last month to expand charter schools (62 percent rejected it; 38 percent supported it). After the meeting, she and her mother thank Kidwell; she announces: “We have a plan,’’ and pledges to do better.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

Dallas school leaders are finding that these deliberately diverse schools are popular with parents on both ends of the spectrum. Martha Castro, whose youngest daughter Sofia is in second grade at Solar Prep for Girls, said the school culture has made a noticeable difference in her daughter. It’s culture.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. Caballero and Perez-Duque met when Caballero was a fifth grade teacher at a bilingual charter school just outside San Diego called Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. It makes the homework harder.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. Caballero and Perez-Duque met when Caballero was a fifth grade teacher at a bilingual charter school just outside San Diego called Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. It makes the homework harder.

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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.”. New state leadership will likely shape the future of rural broadband, but in what ways is yet to be determined.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

While pundits seized upon issues like critical race theory as a driving force in recent election results, Rodrigues talked to parents who just wanted to make sure their kids had a competent bus driver and got a hot school meal. Credit: Steve Kenny. NPU now has a budget of $1.7

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

I can appreciate Treme’s history as one of the first black neighborhoods in the country, but I don’t have the kind of deep love of its customs, its music, its street culture that my mom and grandmother share. The math scores are even more discouraging, with just 16 percent of voucher and public school students passing state tests.

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