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 23, 2019

. — Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Middle school students were asked to read a passage about a half inning of baseball and then reenact the action using wooden figures on a model field. Before digging into the Fordham Institute’s quantitative analysis, I want to explain why cognitive scientists think that background knowledge is so important in reading comprehension.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In March of 2018, Tenaya Middle School officials in Fresno, California pulled a 14-year-old male student out of class for a haircut with shaved-in designs. Last year, California became the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and locks.

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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. Vista Unified School District – Vista, CA.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

But to make more progress, experts say, schools must get creative to address their students’ needs. Related: Proof Points: The chronic absenteeism puzzle Across district and charter schools in Oakland, California, chronic absenteeism skyrocketed from 29 percent pre-pandemic to 53 percent in 2022-23. You get farther behind.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Students at a charter school near Washington, D.C. In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation. Photo: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. In some cases, principals are given extra autonomy to run the school as they see fit, controlling the budget and expanding the school schedule with longer days or weeks.

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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’s not the same. It doesn’t work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The view from the entrance of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Standing in front of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in this Atlanta suburb, you can’t help but notice the opulence of the homes that surround it. Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class. SANDY SPRINGS, Ga.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

After spending 10 years as a contract musician stringing together gigs, teaching private music lessons and performing odd jobs, I stepped into a part-time music teaching position in an urban charter school. Cultural and social relevance. Our school has committed itself to becoming a culturally inclusive organization.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2017

Middle school students at Summit Denali work with a teacher in a small group. A California-born charter school network is starting a new program to home-grow teachers rooted in their approach to education. Photo: Nichole Dobo/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

“I’ll say up front: I am not here to offer any hard-and-fast rules or directives,” said Secretary of Education John King in prepared remarks for the National Charter Schools Conference. The racial disparities in school discipline reflect the cultural appetite to punish black children.

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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. It benefits the students and their families.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

As the new school year approaches, I have been thinking about some of the high-performance, high-expectations schools in which I’ve been privileged to work. These outstanding schools share seven key elements. Regular no-blame, student-centered discussion of this data is a key step in promoting a collaborative school culture.

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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’s not the same. It doesn’t work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. And when kids should stop going to elementary school and start attending a middle school across town.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

And in New Orleans, the majority of the public schools are under the jurisdiction of the state, but charter companies make most of the educational decisions, a trend that was further accelerated after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

As far back as middle school, she fantasized about leaving the state to attend an elite university. Kami Aguilar, a counselor at a brick-and-mortar high school in Happy Valley, Oregon, found the electronic format limiting when she worked from 2012 to 2015 as a virtual counselor for an online charter school. “It

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

It turns out that some of them dissuaded homeowners from enrolling children in PUSD , contributing to the exodus to private schools and, more recently, charter schools. Changing negative perceptions that date back to school desegregation during the 1970s hasn’t been easy, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Students are referred by residential drug-treatment programs, school districts, or parents desperate for help. Once in, the hope is that a culture of “positive peer pressure” will help teens stay sober. ” Others blame low enrollments on the way recovery schools handle treatment. Here’s how to help them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

As a middle schooler, Alan says he was bullied relentlessly even as he was repeatedly suspended. And while the pandemic closed middle schools across the country, it doesn’t appear to have shutdown school discipline. Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There, he tried to give people information about important education-related bills, including the bill that introduced Amendment 2, which would overturn the state’s constitutional restriction that prohibits using public funds for private and charter schools. Still, the path was winding and not limited to school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Barton teaches English full-time at Clarksdale High School. Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. Related: Former educators answer call to return to school. MARKS, Miss. —

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Numbers improved this school year, with 111 of 290 (38 percent) students chronically absent as of mid-May, according to Sequoia Union High School District data. Note: Figures include charter schools. percent) during the 2018-19 school year to 846 out of 1,637 students (51.7 percent) in 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A “I was tired of sitting back so that white people could feel comfortable.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Kumar said school counselors were key allies for her and her friends – mentors and confidantes who can help students navigate thoughts, feelings and dilemmas that they may not understand. “A Induja Kumar, senior, BASIS Chandler charter school. A lot of us became desensitized to really horrible things. Credit: Source: YouTube.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Welcome to our cultural island,” Martinez said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When it was confirmed that I would be developing and piloting our school’s first civics course, I began to think about my eighth-graders more intently. I, Mr. Billups , would be entrusted with the task of teaching civics in a politically polarized atmosphere at a culturally and racially diverse school in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In one study in Chicago of almost 200 elementary public school students, listening to 10 minutes of audio-recorded mindfulness daily for eight weeks improved students’ grades in reading and science. Doug Worthen, mindfulness director at Middlesex School. We see kids not staying up as late, getting better sleep.”

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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. In just a few years of operation, the school ranks at the top of Chicago Public Schools in academic performance.

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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

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. A Cuban refugee herself, she led discussions with teachers on similarities between Hispanic and Southern culture. They love family. It has been scrapped.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students – even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

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