Education Elements

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In an economically disadvantaged part of Charlotte, N.C., there is a public school with the highest percentage of Title 1 students in the district. Less than a mile away is a charter school that could have become its competition, luring away students and leaving the district school with fewer funds to tackle the same set of challenges.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. Fordham Institute. This story about rethinking U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. The tutoring was free to students no matter how much they used it.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2018

As an ESL student and a child from an immigrant, economically disadvantaged family raised in blue-collar northern Ohio, I know first-hand the power a good book can have on a child who feels different and inferior from everyone around him. Students who are economically disadvantaged, black, Hispanic, and have IEPs (i.e.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. In Milwaukee Public Schools, teachers had access to biweekly virtual coaching to support the switch to remote learning. There are different approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

From my perspective you could find and replace ‘DCPS’ [DC Public Schools] for basically any major school system right now,” tweeted Ben Speicher, the principal of a charter school in Philadelphia. The shift in post-HS [high school] plans is a real uncovered story right now.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

During the 2018-19 school year, 11 percent of Alabama students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 18 or more days. Some student populations, including those who were economically disadvantaged, disabled, Black and American Indian, had rates higher than 12 percent. Some individual schools had absentee rates up to 48 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

Casey Foundation shows that children who read proficiently by the end of third grade are more likely to graduate from high school and to be economically successful in adulthood. I still remember my excitement to borrow books from the school library so that I could better understand life beyond my poverty-stricken world.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

Many of our students, who are predominantly Black and Latino, found that these posts resonated and decided to participate in the movement by publishing blog posts about surviving charter school, exposing some of the harmful racist, classist and ableist practices they experienced in school. And in a sense, I did.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2017

Ensuring that all students in Massachusetts have access to high quality schools was at the heart of the recent debate over Question 2, the proposed charter school expansion initiative. Black, Hispanic, and previously poor-performing students gained the most by attending charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Economic uncertainty apparently has this side effect.) Fertility rates have continued to decline since, despite the economic recovery, and WICHE predicts the number of first graders will fall by more than 330,000 to 3.6 When schools close — forever. million in 2019. That’s a 8.5 percent decline from a peak of 3.9

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

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. Schools should get the resources they need to be successful with any population.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The researchers controlled for students’ socio-economic status, race, home language and many other other student and school characteristics. Standard deviations are statistical units that are hard to translate but this represents a relatively small increase in test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Greater New Orleans Foundation report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. Parents and teachers have been packing churches , school board rooms and legislative sessions in protest. “I’m in the school. But the older law left retention decisions up to districts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2014

The researchers, Chris and Sarah Theule Lubiensky, chose to look specifically at math scores, in the belief that math is a purer measurement of the influence of school because students tend to learn very little math at home. Nobody disputes that schools full of rich kids do better.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. Institutions in close proximity to Birmingham, such as Miles College and Stillman College, offer minors in entrepreneurship, while Alabama A&M runs the AAMU Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development. Trade Industry.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

District and school takeovers can happen in a variety of ways , such as when a state disbands a school board and sends in an interim superintendent, as is the model in Mississippi. Other states allow the takeover of individual struggling schools. It was funded by federal money.

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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

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

JACKSON — In an interview with the Jackson Free Press, Mississippi Association of Educators President Joyce Helmick, an educator from DeSoto County, called charter schools “private charter schools.” Haley Barbour, appointed by Barbour to his commissions on tax study and charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Related: School district secessions gather speed, new report shows. It also laid the groundwork for a robust market of goods and services designed to help families learn the “hidden curriculum” of school-choice policies and engage in choice behaviors that yield desired school assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Just like any construction project, building a new college campus offers economic and educational opportunities through training and jobs to people without a postsecondary degree — something the black-majority population of New Orleans desperately needs. Not only should local newspapers and consumer protection groups follow the $9.4

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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. Johnson believes to succeed in the tech sector, students need the opposite approach.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

“Too many administrators are unwilling to close failing schools and create better options for these children,” said Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in a speech to charter school leaders. Students formerly in failing schools that ended up in higher performing schools showed better outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

“I was willing to give it more time,” Chen said, but Gross moved to start the process almost immediately, and to make it official by the end of the school year. Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South. Gant said he thinks about “how Jesus would do school.…

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

In recent years, there’s been a surge in new Montessori schools in the United States, fueled, in part, by new state laws that are expanding the numbers of publicly funded, but privately run charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Schools’ transportation offerings have to be considered as part of the overall economic and workforce development strategy in the city. While it’s true that the rising cost of yellow school buses gnaw at the meat of school budgets, schools in New Orleans sneakily use it as an excuse to not provide bus service.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

Related: Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Debra Houston Edwards, 77, a Washington Elementary graduate and former Jefferson Parish schools administrator “The next 10 years is going to be full of these kinds of stories,” said Douglas N.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2017

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. He said that participants from underrepresented groups made up 65 percent of this year’s group — including seven first-generation college students and nine from backgrounds of high economic need. “My

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