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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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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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How My School Chooses Courage Over Fear to Prioritize DEI

ED Surge

My time as the director of family engagement at a charter school in Cincinnati gave me insight into what it takes to cultivate this space, and I knew I would need a team of dedicated individuals to help me achieve this goal and execute our DEIB strategic plan. Who gets to decide what books go into the library? they asked.

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A Conversation About School Choice

Cult of Pedagogy

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. It’s very flexible. And it’s not even a subtle one.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 Event Highlights

Zinn Education Project

and the Phillips County Retired Teachers Association at the Eliza Miller Junior and Senior High School Historic Site, named for educator and philanthropist Eliza Ann Ross Miller. The Teach Truth pop-up with banned books will remain on display in the library/museum. Hosted on June 7 by the West Side Community Hub, Inc.