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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school.

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

19, decided to run for school board last year because of the inequalities he witnessed at his hometown schools. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. Stanley Celestine Jr.,

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What Does the End of ESSER Funding Mean?

Studies Weekly

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

The allure of helping disadvantaged children has combined with an openness, on the part of government actors, to private partnerships and technocratic fixes, especially those aimed at disciplining teachers. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support. The George W.

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OPINION: U.S. presidential candidates are finally taking disability rights in education seriously

The Hechinger Report

And yet the federal government ultimately only covers 14.6 Regarding Buttigieg’s plan for inclusive education , one of his goals is to “ensure that 85 percent of students with intellectual and multiple disabilities are in general education classrooms for 80 percent or more of the day by the end of the 2025 school year.”

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State takeovers of ‘failing’ schools are increasing, but with little evidence they help students

The Hechinger Report

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.