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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 Weekly Update.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A bubble machine and a table lined with cookies and coloring books welcomed families coming for a midsummer meet-and-greet at Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning, a new charter school in the Carrollton neighborhood. It’s overseen by the state school board.). But the system has changed since Katrina.

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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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MARCH 26, 2018

The evidence that racism is directed at black people to impede their social and economic progress keeps growing (and growing), but discrimination persists. Leave this field empty if you're human: Actually, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement put an end to that discussion. Source: The Equality of Opportunity Project. Weekly Update.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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MAY 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: A December 2018 report that calculated funding in each state first revealed this national recovery. This additional May 2019 analysis is more detailed, crunching the dollars for each school district in the nation. The lag time between economic cycles and education spending is long.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Schools’ transportation offerings have to be considered as part of the overall economic and workforce development strategy in the city. Leave this field empty if you're human: If you don’t think transportation options matter, look at what happens when school systems don’t address their students’ mobility needs.

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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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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Looking around the small island during an economic depression amongst its beautiful palm trees, they knew that the future they envisioned would not be possible there. Related: With no silver bullet, innovation abounds at this bilingual high school. I may only be a high-school junior, but the big question of college is always looming.

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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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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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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 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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JANUARY 3, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “‘You guys have really high grades, so we expect you to be able to at least go to a SUNY,’” Mejia recalls staff telling the group. ‘“But A 2012 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that most high-achieving low-income students don’t apply to any competitive colleges.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

“To have a place in a crèche, you have to fill out paperwork and make a demand,” said Eric Charbonnier, a Paris-based analyst in the early childhood and schools division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Like the highest-performing charter schools in different U.S. It’s bureaucratic.”.

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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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JANUARY 23, 2018

Encouraging blacks and Hispanics, both growing populations, to pursue STEM careers is both an equity issue and crucial for the economy, according to Rodney Andrews, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. It was a culture shock.”. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Capital City Public Charter School students doing field work. BOSTON — In 1963, Greg Farrell, an assistant dean of admissions at Princeton University, learned that an organization rooted in the teachings of a German educator was about to launch a wilderness training school in Colorado. “I Photo: EL Education.

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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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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 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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

I am a black man and strong advocate of charter schools, as a founder and full-time teacher at one in New York. Nowhere is the inequity of paternalism and structural racism more insidious than in the charter-school sector. Look no further than KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First and Success Academies.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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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. Private school seemed the only option, and a hugely expensive one.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Students shivering in winter coats while trying to learn is horrific in itself, but the malfunctioning boilers are a metaphor for the wider problems with the criminal justice systems, schools, housing and economic development plans in the “Charm City.”. The state determines city funding for schools in Maryland. Weekly Update.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Avilez is a high school senior at YES Prep Gulfton , part of a Houston college-preparatory charter school network. million DACA-eligible youth, including those who haven’t enrolled, contribute an estimated $2 billion in state and local taxes, according to a report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In the summer, my child also attends a teacher-training lab school that is part of a public university in Finland, a nation ranked No. 1 in childhood education in the world by both UNICEF and the World Economic Forum. and one of the largest, most influential and most racially and economically segregated systems in the world.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

According to Prosperity Now, a national nonprofit to expand economic opportunity for low-income families, and the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, white households have seven times the amount of wealth as African Americans, and six times as much as Latinos. This is a civil rights issue.” This is a lie.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2019

There are 60,000 fewer public education jobs than there were before the recession began in 2007, according to an analysis of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report by the think tank Economic Policy Institute. The charter school era was predicated on the notion of breaking up the monopoly that unions have on schools.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District. “I

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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 billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant. The supplemental fund was also meant to support the child care needs of essential workers.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz does not support private-school vouchers, opposing statewide private-school voucher legislation introduced in 2021 by Republicans in Minnesota. — Walz, who signed the law in 2023, made Minnesota one of only eight states to have a universal school meal policy.

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