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. Schools and districts must help educators foster their own social and emotional competencies. There are different approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? Let’s consider for a moment if our egalitarian impulses, however well-intended, have prevented us from pursuing a vision of public education that could be more fruitful…. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Fordham Institute.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Within a single generation, his family has staked a claim to social and economic opportunities often viewed as out of reach in low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods. Drexel is the lead partner in the grant, which encompasses seven public schools, including one charter school, in a two-square-mile area.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Public school choice appeared to increase overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a study by three economists, “ Does School Ch o ice Increase Crime? circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

I attended high-poverty neighborhood public schools. 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. On the flip side, research by the Annie E. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

If teachers commit to sending their own children to public schools maybe people who pay tuition to alleviate their fears will follow. The majority of students currently in public schools in the U.S. are low-income and concentrated in the same schools. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C.

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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.” public school students are Black.

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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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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. The launch date was pushed back to August 2017 as he sought more private funding to supplement the public school funding stream all charters receive.

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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. Molière also grew up in the New Orleans area and was educated in its public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

The introduction of choice into the public education system in the 1960s and 70s through magnet schools designed with integration goals — followed by an expanding charter school sector and district choice programs — created avenues for parents to actively select public-school settings for their children.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Jackson Public Schools entered into an agreement with a private foundation, the City of Jackson, and the Governor’s office to improve its schools. The future of Jackson Public Schools is now in the hands of a coalition that includes representatives from Gov. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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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

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.). It’s overseen by the state school board.).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2017

The charter school, serving mostly children of color and students from low-income families, received one of the city’s highest ratings for preschool quality. WASHINGTON — Each morning at Van Ness Elementary School, the staff takes turns welcoming children just inside the front doors. Public Schools and the D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. Changing negative perceptions that date back to school desegregation during the 1970s hasn’t been easy, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — Six years ago, author and creative writing teacher Anne Gisleson was looking for a school for her 4-year-old son, Otto, who attended a private Lutheran preschool in her Bywater neighborhood. But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods.

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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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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. Across the country, that’s how district and charter relationships often play out.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. “I’m in the school.

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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

JUNE 18, 2018

all students between the ages of 5 and 21 who attend a public school, including charters and private schools, are eligible to ride the bus systems (Metrobus, DC Circulator) and rail system (Metrorail) to school and school related activities for free. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood. I think that kind of change in thinking has happened at the school in recent years.”. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2019

These questions and exclamations are just a tiny slice of the experience of an educator whose responsibility — often one of many — is to shepherd students to success after high school graduation. That educator may be the school counselor, adviser, English teacher or coach, among others. What is a welder?”.

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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

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. At Wilson, like many of New Orleans public schools, most of the students are black — and it was Albert’s personal mission to reach each of them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

In Jefferson County Public Schools in 2011-12, the first year of Common Core testing, 25 percent of black third-graders were proficient or better in reading, compared to 54 percent of white third-graders. The plan means that unlike schools in many big urban districts, every school here has some level of racial and economic diversity.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

Catholic educators say it has improved student performance and boosted enrollment at the schools that have embraced it, including two in Seattle. Many of the Italian, Irish and German families that made up the backbone of the church have moved from cities to the suburbs and are sending their children to public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

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. In 36 states and Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

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. As of last year, there were fewer than 4,000.

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