The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. They also wanted school officials to send a clear message to the community that Lusher supported Black Lives Matter. They encountered mostly silence.

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 144

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. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

With these restrictions being so specific and tied to precious federal funds, most charter schools in New Orleans contract out food decisions to national companies like the one my school uses. These mandates align more closely with the lobbying priorities of corporate farms than medical advice.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

It turns out that some of them dissuaded homeowners from enrolling children in PUSD , contributing to the exodus to private schools and, more recently, charter schools. Changing negative perceptions that date back to school desegregation during the 1970s hasn’t been easy, they said.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Teaching positions for history and biology were rather scarce in my area, so I applied pretty much everywhere in a 50 mile radius. I had a few interviews that summer – and one charter school even offered me a job without interviewing me! I was going to be the founding history teacher at a little school in Metro Detroit!

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Museum Charter School History Project-Based Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It’s not uncommon for weather to force school closures when flooding makes the roads impassable. The county has one small town with a public library, a pharmacy, a small grocery store and a few diners and fast-food joints along the outskirts. Clifford Hamilton, a lifelong resident of Leslie County and director of the county’s library.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

We must create opportunities to practice what students learn in schools. history when the levee system broke in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, could stand to produce a few engineers from the hood. The idea that education can only be found in a brick-and-mortar school is as myopic as the idea that we can jail our way to safety.

Primary Sources 87

Primary Sources Charter School Education Civics 87

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? Young and Jeffrey Sachs explain in the Tulsa World , By wielding censorious punishments on school districts, students, and teachers for imagined violations, [Oklahoma state] has undermined educational freedom on an unprecedented scale. What book that looks honestly at U.S.

Education 52

Education Library Social Justice K-12 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Many institutions provide legal and medical clinics and intervene to improve their local public schools. Rutgers University hosts a branch of the county public library. Many of their neighbors already mistrust them after histories of unbridled expansion and heavy-handed treatment such as the kind that occurred in West Philadelphia.

Civics 79

Civics Civic Engagement Economics Museum 79

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Last year, she published an extensively researched book about the school choice movement called The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ). There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school.

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Charter School Private School Public School Pedagogy 238

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The subject line read: “Living history.”. 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. 7, the day after the attack.

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Charter School Civics Middle School Civic Engagement 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The Founder’s Library at Howard University in Washington, DC. People who know American history, specifically black history, don’t ask if we need HBCUs. They know that as soon as the Civil War commenced and enslaved blacks left plantations, they looked for new places to live and new schools to attend.

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Charter School History American History Library 107

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.

Elementary School 123

Elementary School Middle School K-12 Charter School 123

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. 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. Children’s future depends on what they learn today. Esther Productions, Inc.

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Teaching Library Museum Social Justice 87

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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Public School High School Social Studies History 128

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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K-12 Education Elementary School Charter School 67

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Businessman Paul Campbell speaks before students at the Academy of Seminole, a charter school he founded in rural Oklahoma. Campbell said the “thesis” of the school is that “on day one of your ninth grade, literally hour one … we start talking about what you want to do with your life.” Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Charter School Library High School Public School 99

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. Then there was the curriculum. Parents, teachers, and students united in public backlash.

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Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 142

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It also orders the heads of other agencies, including the Labor Department; Health and Human Services; the Department of Defense; and the Interior Department, which houses the Bureau of Indian Education, to review how grants and funding in their control can be used to send students to private or charter schools.

Education 123

Education K-12 Charter School Government 123

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

She used it to buy books and computers for the library, white boards and printers for classrooms, to beef up a robotics program and build a multipurpose sports court for her students. It meant a huge difference for the school, Caraballo said. Ramos was well-liked by educators during his first stint as education secretary.

Education 87

Education Government K-12 Elementary School 87

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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Library Education Charter School Public School 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s. Earlier this year, he signed a law barring libraries from banning books based on ideology; book bans nationwide have largely targeted LGTBQ+-themed books.

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K-12 Education Public School History 134