The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. Related: Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

A college prep class at Match Charter is devoted to figuring out financial aid. This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Photo: Kim Palmer.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Demand will likely grow because the supply will not: Voters in Massachusetts overwhelming rejected a ballot question last month to expand charter schools (62 percent rejected it; 38 percent supported it). Goals: To get into a school I am excited about and have the financial support to actually attend; to study sociology.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Youth even have ideas as to how they should be governed. Related: Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students look like schools for affluent white kids? Hitting a child doesn’t speak well about the quality of teaching in a school. These policies could stand a healthy hearing from students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The major impediment to success is failing government schools that African-American and Hispanic children in the inner cities attend. The solution is giving families with poor children federal and state dollars that will enable them to attend the school of their choice.

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