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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. The region also includes districts in both Missouri and Kansas, with schools using different curriculums and standards across the state line.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

Nationally, black students who have the same family income as white students are much less likely to graduate from high school. Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School. The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. It’s like a legal segregation.”.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. Department of Education defines as “doubled up.”.

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APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

They don’t have the choice to, say, tax real estate developers to fund their schools.” The state and federal government has to give us the resources that we need.”. ” Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education. But that’s easier said than done. Syracuse’s Washington Square Neighborhood.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

That number is now rising at a faster rate , Nelson says, while local and federal governments remain largely mum on the issue. Then there’s the matter of missed school assignments and keeping a roof over their heads. She always does pickup except when Zoe stays late because of her growing list of after-school-sports commitments.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

They ran into an economic wall that has hit communities of color the hardest, but which has also blocked many residents of this 98 percent white county. High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

These aren’t undergraduate economics majors. It was scientists from Virginia Tech — not the state or federal governments — who discovered high levels of lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, for instance. Andrew Seligsohn, president, Campus Compact. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. This story was reprinted with permission.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school. Charters are public schools, ostensibly open to all. Kim Smith, a mother of three in Greene County.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

“… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.” What makes them different?

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

.” Take Elizabeth Warren’s recent attack on charter schools. million pupils, “strain the resources of school districts and leave students behind, primarily students of color.”. Carpenter, who is black, added “None of the schools in my community was working.” as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

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JULY 14, 2020

The call to “defund the police” says that funding should be diverted from a state-monopolized system to programs and policies that aid “economic and social growth, democracy and unity.” But there is a very significant parallel between government-run policing and government-run schooling. I am not a scholar.

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JULY 7, 2020

Calls to defund the police, whether in schools or in our cities, are just one part of what must become a larger movement to end taxpayer funding for institutions that are anti-Black at their core. The original supporters of vouchers were unabashed in proclaiming that the sole reason for these grant programs was to maintain racial segregation.

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JULY 17, 2024

Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces. Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility.

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JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. The federal government has a very limited set of carrots and sticks to encourage diversity.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

“There is a very seriously warped view among many Americans, and particularly more affluent Americans, about where the money is actually going,” said Richard Reeves, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and author of “ Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust.”. “I

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In contrast to American private schools, Sweden’s free schools don’t charge tuition — they draw on government funds to operate — and are required to follow Sweden’s national curriculum. They’re more comparable to American charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run.

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JULY 2, 2018

I am a white father who spends two hours on the New York City subway every day with my 10-year-old so he can attend an underfunded, desegregated public elementary school with a majority of black and Latino students and a majority of economically disadvantaged students. Not with my child, you don’t, I thought. Today, I’m one of them.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Remember when our education secretary called HBCUs “pioneers of ‘school choice,’” completely missing the fact that black postsecondary institutions were born of government-backed segregation? The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom.”

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

” House Speaker Philip Gunn said at the Mississippi Economic Council’s annual Hob Nob on Oct. John Polk, R-Hattiesburg, pointed out that local governments determine millage rate for public-school districts. “How do we force the county and local governments to raise millage and their contribution?”

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But despite the shocking images, Detroit is not much of an outlier when it comes to crumbling schools. A 2020 study by the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s research arm, found 54 percent of public school districts needed to update or replace buildings. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos , a Michigander.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The major impediment to success is failing government schools that African-American and Hispanic children in the inner cities attend. The solution is giving families with poor children federal and state dollars that will enable them to attend the school of their choice.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

On June 1, the TEA took over Houston’s school district, removing the superintendent and elected board. Critics say it’s an effort by a Republican governor to impose his preferred policies, including more charter schools, on the state’s largest city, whose mayor is a Democrat and whose population is two-thirds Black or Hispanic.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations. Anything in the government does.

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APRIL 9, 2019

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos put out the department’s 2019 budget, Democrats who support charter schools found themselves in an awkward political situation. million the Department of Education had allocated for the Special Olympics, but she somehow found room in the budget to increase charter school funding by $60 million.

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MAY 18, 2017

Trump and his besieged education secretary Betsy DeVos would rob Peter, the public schools, to pay the Paul of charter schools and vouchers. Charter schools on average don’t distinguish themselves from their traditional school peers. It’s also immoral. But it’s not surprising, given her track record so far.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools – even those with religious orientations – and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations. Charter schools are public schools because they are funded through tax revenues.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

When her private school told the Simmons family they would have to shell out up to $10,000 a year for once-a-week personalized reading instruction and other services, they decided to transfer their daughter to Louisiana Key Academy. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District, sympathizes with students like Benjamin. government and making clear that President Barack Obama will remain in his position until January. And one man does not run the country.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5 The government does have regulations that these entities must follow, but revoking their recognition would require a lengthy Education Department review.

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