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JANUARY 1, 2018

Montessori schools have many loyal devotees and they’re certainly rising in popularity among American parents. But are they any better than traditional schools, or other progressive teaching philosophies? By contrast, there are few Montessori high schools in the United States.). Jill Barshay/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

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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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

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. Jonathan Johnson, founder of Rooted School. Johnson believes to succeed in the tech sector, students need the opposite approach.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

That idea of building a new university had fizzled, though, after Thiel concluded that colleges were too regulated to make the kind of changes he wanted within the traditional systems. We got 400 applications the first year,” says Strachman, who had previously founded a project-based charter school called Innovations Academy. “We

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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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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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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

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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Iturralde has worked at Kingsburg Elementary Charter School District, a five-campus district in the rural Central Valley of California, for seven years. There, a majority of students are Hispanic, and over half are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to EdData and the California Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Essex Tech is what used to be known as a vocational school. 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.” Just over 18 percent of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was proof that his initiative to break up large campuses into smaller, more personal schools was working. They don’t have the choice to, say, tax real estate developers to fund their schools.”

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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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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

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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APRIL 10, 2017

SEATTLE — After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools. Photo: Ben Stocking.

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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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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. Department of Education defines as “doubled up.”.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Some school systems have reported usage rates below 2 percent. So in general, I believe that on-demand tutoring is more impactful than traditional high-dosage tutoring models on a per tutoring session or per hour of tutoring basis. On-demand tutoring can appear to be an economical option. In Fairfax County, Va.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It will take weeks and months for some families to receive homeowners’ insurance payments; that span of time should be a measure of school disruption. And let’s not overlook the daily economic catastrophes that many Black families face even when the skies are clear.

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The Hechinger Report

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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AUGUST 8, 2017

In a push to raise test scores and other metrics, such as high school graduation rates, the state of Louisiana took over most of the city’s schools and converted them to publicly funded, privately run charter schools. There’s the realization now that our schools are adequate but they’re not great.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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

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. Most are small.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Sparks, one of San Antonio Independent School District’s “network principals,” has been given more than $1 million in grants to replicate Lamar’s successes at Bowden, part of a larger effort to overhaul low-performing schools and boost falling enrollment across this inner-city district with 92 schools and about 49,000 students.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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.”. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders has characterized charter schools, in simple black-and-white terms, “as a way to privatize the public education system.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2020

But as millions of protestors across the country call for monies to be redirected from police to institutions that propel economic and social growth, democracy and unity, school choice advocates are holding fast to their sordid legacy of defunding already under-resourced traditional public schools that serve Black children.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Compounding these demographic shifts, a decrease in black teachers, who comprise a visible chunk of the black middle class, widens the economic and social divides between black and white people. Eliminating barriers to the teaching profession and offering an incentive for black teachers to stay makes complete economic sense.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. This year there may be as few as 19. According to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

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 22, 2017

And, as it turns out, low-performing students tend to be drawn to cyber charter schools, the study found. “If Another idea: Traditional schools could look at this as an opportunity to create a more effective model for at-risk students. a major provider of online schools, said in an email.

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