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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

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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OPINION: ‘Education tax credit programs extend choice to families who can’t afford private schools or to move to a tony community’

The Hechinger Report

They, in turn, award scholarships that students can use to attend the public, private or religious schools of their choice. “Affluent families already exercise school choice by enrolling in private schools, or simply choosing to live in places with good schools.”

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

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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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

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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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

When it started, Fiske claims Mysa was the first school to call itself a microschool. But these days, microschools — loosely defined as schools with relatively few students that function as private schools or learning centers for homeschool students — seem to be everywhere. And she isn’t the only one with that worry.

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Isn’t desegregation a measure of educational quality?

The Hechinger Report

A coalition of seven charter school management organizations (CMOs) in New Orleans and the Kingsley House , a non-profit that serves low-income and vulnerable populations, have partnered to offer a “diverse by design” early childhood center. There’s a historical and cultural tradition of going where your family has been,” she said.

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Privilege for the poor: Farming giant gives back — to its workers children

The Hechinger Report

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