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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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. One student’s letter clearly showed their frustration with social distancing when they wrote, In conclusion, you should support Government restrictions due to the Coronavirus.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new. People have to remember “the pandemic isn’t over,” she said. It was all hands on deck.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots. on April 10, 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day. The state and federal government has to give us the resources that we need.”. Namely, she is looking to give her kids a recess period, which has also been linked to higher achievement. But that’s easier said than done.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help. Parents know their kids’ only shot at escaping poverty is the county’s public schools. Then what do you have left?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

They also say it’s in the universities’ self-interest, coming as it does at a time when decaying surroundings and urban crime discourage applicants, cash-strapped local governments are pushing these nonprofit institutions to pay more for the services they get, and the public has a low opinion of college costs, management and value.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school. Special admissions schools, which often have criteria like certain test scores or auditions or portfolios. It’s certainly true for charter schools. Are there other setups that fund school choice differently?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Construction had pushed back the new school year at her Vermont high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2017

So she borrowed $21,000 over the course of her education, which she’ll have to repay out of her salary working at a New York City charter school for low-income students. The tax deductions cost the federal government $35 billion a year in forgone revenue, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. It’s a lot of money.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

Announced at SXSWedu at a session sponsored by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, and championed by Brooklyn Lab Charter School co-founder Erin Mote, the project is trying to get schools to use their collective buying power to strong-arm ed tech developers into delivering programs that provide interoperability.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Credit: Matt Stensland for The Hechinger Report Run by the federal government, Havasupai Elementary is the only school in Supai. She never finished high school and said she still struggles with basic math as an adult. The school got new computers and a library. I want change for my kids, Hastings said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The Founder’s Library at Howard University in Washington, DC. The federal government defined an HBCU in 1965 as “any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans.” It’s a role they still play today.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

While he was in elementary school, Taheem’s classrooms were clearly under-resourced, with a constant shortage of pencils and classroom floors so damaged that wood slabs were gouged out. Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

Consequently, this will be a major blow to those in government jobs with high unionization rates like protective services, library services and education. However, the union membership rate of public-sector workers (34.4 percent) was more than five times higher than that of private-sector workers (6.5 percent) in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

Unsurprisingly, Walters, too, has advocated for displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom and also has backed the conversion of a private virtual Catholic school into a charter school; the Supreme Court plans to hear oral arguments on the case on April 30. It goes without saying that Walterss crusade is multifaceted.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “ frack” Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling. Nearly a third of middle- and high-school science teachers nationwide have wrongly suggested global warming is naturally occurring.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Anti-trans policies were passed, school staff were ordered not to use “terms related to LGBTQ,” and a full year of social studies was cut from graduation requirements to make room for supposedly more patriotic instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a flurry of orders and actions designed to reshape the federal governments role in education. At the same time, the Trump administration is attempting to redefine what the federal government considers discrimination in schools and on college campuses. Since taking office Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Maraida Caraballo Martinez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the principal of the elementary school Escuela de la Communidad Jaime C. She never knows how much money her school in Yabucoa will receive from the government each year because it isnt based on the number of children enrolled.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

House of Representatives passed the “ Parents Bill of Rights Act ,” which would guarantee parents access to more information online, including curriculum, budgets, reading lists and library books, while requiring them to be notified of student requests to change their gender-identifying pronouns. Last week, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Earlier this year, he signed a law barring libraries from banning books based on ideology; book bans nationwide have largely targeted LGTBQ+-themed books. Walz also required every state agency, including the department of education , to appoint tribal-state liaisons and formally consult with tribal governments.

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