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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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Coronavirus Chronicles 028 – Heritage High School

Dangerously Irrelevant

Thank you, Shameka Gerald , for sharing how Heritage High School in Newport News, Virginia is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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OPINION: Should plaintiffs in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about school choice be careful what they wish for?

The Hechinger Report

What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education? For the perspective of the Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher, click here. Supreme Court tax-credit decision won’t change much in terms of public-school spending requirements. This brings us back to charter schools.

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How My School Chooses Courage Over Fear to Prioritize DEI

ED Surge

My passion for DEI did not change once I transitioned from the classroom to school leadership. This is both a learning opportunity and a leadership opportunity for students to champion diversity and facilitate inclusion within their classrooms. It’s really great to see the strides and accomplishments thus far.” “I’m

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Then, in mid-May 2023, a member of the school board told Grimes that it would not be renewing his contract, which was to end in June 2024. It has been scrapped.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools.