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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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APRIL 30, 2017

Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics. This transcends school type.

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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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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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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. Gilazgi only wishes the Science Leadership Scholarship program could expand.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

At some KIPP charter schools in New Jersey, teachers will receive training in suicide prevention, grief counseling and how to spot signs of distress in an online environment. For now, Dallas schools are planning to open in early September under a hybrid model, with a mix of virtual and in-person classes.

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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. Only 42 percent of its students come from economically disadvantaged households, compared to 94 percent of Wilson students. Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report.

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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. The high school graduated 99 percent of its students last year.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2016

In August, Michigan school officials warned they might shutter schools that performed among the bottom 5 percent, which represents more than 100 schools, on the state’s exams. Most “closures” translate to reconstituting a school’s leadership and/or staff to varying degrees.

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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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MAY 21, 2019

Arise Academy in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward is part of the city’s diffuse network of nearly 80 charter schools. NEW ORLEANS — Frank Rabalais had big plans for the school just around the corner from his house in Gentilly Terrace, a leafy neighborhood that is one the most racially and socioeconomically diverse corners of the city.

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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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MAY 12, 2020

The lack of presidential leadership contributes to the vast uncertainty we all face. The amount of funding a school receives is clearly connected to class size, number of personnel, instructional support materials, early childhood services, teacher compensation, transportation and other critical amenities that impact student achievement.

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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. In the U.S.,

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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

AUGUST 4, 2022

The calculus that the school district uses to determine economic status includes median income along with other factors, such as parental level of education, home ownership and single parent status. Since 2001, Cambridge, Massachusetts has used a “ controlled choice ” socioeconomic school assignment model.

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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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JANUARY 28, 2019

Meanwhile, the bandwidth boost teachers and students have been enjoying during this school year is already setting the stage for academic improvement, they said. Cross-country student-athletes practice behind Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School during an unseasonably warm September afternoon.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He has called on states to contribute an additional $110 billion of their own education budgets toward school choice, with the goal of providing approximately $12,000 in school-choice funds to “every K-12 student who today lives in poverty.” As for the state allocation, Trump seems to be relying on the power of persuasion.

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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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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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