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Foster’s intelligence and dedication put people into space during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. He created hundreds of desirable jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for black Alabamians.

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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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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 feds must also shut down charters that are public in name only.

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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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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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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. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school.

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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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APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Ideally, their high school graduates will be able to handle college-level work or step right into a good-paying job.

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MAY 21, 2016

The plan means that unlike schools in many big urban districts, every school here has some level of racial and economic diversity. Schools would also be open on Saturdays and through the summer. Only by being proud of their history can students reach their highest levels of achievement.”. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky.

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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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JANUARY 29, 2020

Aside from the obvious differences in choice between the expansion of education service providers and a woman’s right to control her reproductive choices and her body, DeVos clearly needs to learn that the Republican understanding of words like choice , freedom , liberty differs significantly for black people with our history of slavery.

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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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AUGUST 26, 2020

But like many Christian denominations grappling with historical racism , its preference throughout the 1970s and ‘80s was to ignore that history, Gross said, not to address it. The Southern Baptist Convention , Presbyterian Church in America , and the United Methodist Church have all publicly apologized for their racist histories.

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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 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class. He views the recent opening of a charter school in the Mississippi Delta as a promising path forward.

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MAY 19, 2022

More than 80 percent of the school’s roughly 500 students are classified as economically disadvantaged. Related: ‘It’s so hard and so challenging’: An oral history of year three of the pandemic. How we approach school doesn’t seem like it’s changed much in our nation’s history,” said Barney.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

Their testimony amounted to a warning, though, of what schools may face when they restart this fall: kids with a history of mental health problems whose symptoms have worsened, students who maybe experiencing anxiety or anger for the first time, children in households that have become financially precarious and those who are experiencing loss.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Although one can’t consider the results gains because the tests and testing rules changed, the figures have encouraged many: In the English exams for grades 3-8, the traditional public schools passage rate “rose” by 7.6 percentage points, and for charter schools, the figure was up 13.7 percentage points. They have two children.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

These aren’t undergraduate economics majors. Their endowment holdings alone add up to nearly half a trillion dollars and they have an annual economic impact of $1 trillion and employ nearly 4 million people, the Progressive Policy Institute reports. A growing number are diverting a little of that wealth to their communities.

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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. There are also no charter schools in Kentucky, which have split public school resources elsewhere.

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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. And so here we are again, going back through the same process.”

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

School leaders, including those in Detroit, believe a new wave of federal money for school construction can address those disparities. Some iterations of President Joe Biden’s economic plan have included the Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act, which would dole out $130 billion to repair schools over the next decade.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2018

New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on February 23, 2017. Look no further than KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First and Success Academies.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate despair-anxiety-indignation. ” Trump has called for a reallocation of $20 billion in federal funds and for states to contribute an additional $110 billion of their own education budgets toward education, primarily school choice programs.

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

Businessman Paul Campbell speaks before students at the Academy of Seminole, a charter school he founded in rural Oklahoma. Campbell said the “thesis” of the school is that “on day one of your ninth grade, literally hour one … we start talking about what you want to do with your life.” Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. Schools led and controlled by black people.

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MAY 12, 2020

School staffs will be downsized and student support services reduced if we don’t collectively fight for federal relief and stimulus spending to make up for the shortages. history will see it that way. We pay taxes for times like these. Shall we be rewarded by annihilating all ability for us to do so in the future?”.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Credit: Matt Stensland for The Hechinger Report Once there, however, Siyuja discovered how little shed learned at the Supai school. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S.

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate ‘despair, anxiety or indignation’. Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District, sympathizes with students like Benjamin.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: Opinion After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate ‘despair, anxiety or indignation’. Related: If the anger that propelled Trump’s win is economic, can higher education fix it? In Massachusetts, voters thwarted a measure to expand charter schools.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Donald Trump outlined his policy and philosophy for K-12 education in a speech at Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy (CASSA) , a for-profit charter school in the largest city of battleground state of Ohio. Black folks’ outstretched desperation for quality schools and equity is longer than the history of public education itself.

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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 history and race Both Trump and Vance have attacked critical race theory and advanced concerns that K-12 teachers are stirring anti-white bias among students.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s. Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. —

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