ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

Under SB 1159 , schools can recruit people without college degrees to their “school-based preparation programs” so long as candidates are enrolled in bachelor’s programs. Under existing law, Arizona districts and charter schools can create their own teacher-prep programs, with approval from the state board of education.)

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. He also taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York. Fordham Institute. This story about rethinking U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it. Public-school Failures. Kast says she would love to enroll him at Old Dominion, but the school does not have a special-education program. Most private schools in the state don’t.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

School districts rely heavily on the revenue that comes from local property taxes, creating funding disparities between rich and poor districts. Since race and income are highly correlated due to the pervasive discrimination that has blighted this nation’s history, whiter districts receive more money than majority-minority districts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

But like other cities, New Orleans’ private, public and charter schools are as much a vehicle for segregation as our residents’ attitudes toward black and poor folk. Research shows that students who attend diverse schools have higher academic outcomes, and they are more likely to work, learn and live in integrated settings.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Match, like many of its peers in the rapidly growing charter school sector, offers an extended day and demanding curriculum filled with Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Merits are redeemable for privileges like eating lunch out or credit at the school store. The college prep classes have frequent exams and assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Their photos this week are showing a mix of children from all different ethnic backgrounds, no easy task to achieve in New York City, where close to half the elementary schools are 90 percent black and Hispanic. Yet I also have friends who’ve chosen more integrated neighborhoods and schools for their kids. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ This is the final story in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Photo: Liz Willen.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood. I think that kind of change in thinking has happened at the school in recent years.”. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A federal judge fully released the district from that order in June, and just weeks before the school year started, Beard and the rest of the board unanimously approved a voluntary plan to keep the district’s schools desegregated and ensure that students of color have equal opportunities to graduate and succeed beyond high school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school’s budget has been impacted by its financial disadvantage as a Type 1 Charter School, or a startup, which means its charter organization is responsible for building renovations and costs. Interest in the school was also affected by its location in a dangerous neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

The appeal of this idea can be backed up with data — a 2023 poll asked this question: School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs. It’s certainly true for charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Board of Education , the historic Supreme Court decision establishing that it was unconstitutional to segregate public school children. Board question because many among us still believe in segregation, and saying otherwise would challenge our life decisions, such as where we live and where we send our children to school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Aside from the obvious differences in choice between the expansion of education service providers and a woman’s right to control her reproductive choices and her body, DeVos clearly needs to learn that the Republican understanding of words like choice , freedom , liberty differs significantly for black people with our history of slavery.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Chen, who was hired as the school’s first principal of color in late 2017, said a better description might have been “exclusive,” and not just because of the $12,500 to $20,500 tuition, but because of the cultural rigidity that clearly delineated outsiders and insiders. Yet churches are still segregated.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For fellow senior Raoul Sandoval, similar warnings came from family members who lived and worked in the school’s Lower West Side, Pilsen neighborhood. Knowing that he had always excelled academically, they urged him to apply for a scholarship to a private school instead. Both get a D, implying a similar lack of understanding.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

Related: Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. More than one million students nationwide did not return to public school after the pandemic. Some enrolled at private schools, others began homeschooling, and still others seemingly disappeared , according to Thomas S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

history curriculums to include more diverse figures and perspectives; yet those who oppose such initiatives continue to receive the biggest microphones, despite being in the minority. Later, she went to work for Families for Excellent Schools, a group that was working to raise the cap on the number of charter schools in Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It sounds absurd, given that President-elect Trump just ran the most divisive campaign in modern history and will likely govern as if he won in a landslide. The Danger Is Now Real ,” they write, and expect “a new era of federal hostility toward public schools.” A threat to public education, indeed, as NPE defines it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A teacher sickout roiled the Bluegrass State in February, and the two candidates there have clashed on issues like teacher pensions and charter schools. Bartlett, a high school history teacher, did a double take, too. At least in recent history you need more than that.” Democrats always try to run on education.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Former Vice President Joe Biden made increasing school funding central to his new education platform. Bernie Sanders has proposed tripling Title I funding for low-income schools. Elizabeth Warren’s plan would limit charter schools in favor of funding for traditional public schools.

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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 protects the religious freedom of students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. Schools led and controlled by black people.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Credit: Matt Stensland for The Hechinger Report Once there, however, Siyuja discovered how little shed learned at the Supai school. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. Scenario #1: DeVos moves quickly to implement President-Elect Trump’s plan to use $20 billion of federal funds for block grants to states to support vouchers for poor children to attend private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschooling mom Andrea Forte, right, pauses in her reading to answer a question from her daughter, Elena Forte, left, during Elena and her brother Devon’s language arts and history class time upstairs in the Forte family home on Aug. On the ACT, they score above the public school average but below that for private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Yet six decades after Brown, federal judges and officials rarely check to see if districts are obeying their orders to desegregate—and in many cases, schools in districts with a history of discrimination against black children have actually grown more segregated under federal supervision.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The 50-50 Senate confirmation vote – broken only by Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaker – means the pro-choice DeVos, who attended private schools and sent her children to them – will take the helm. Not anymore. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

My childhood included yearly trips abroad and private schools for which my parents paid full freight. One night, my senior year of high school, I found myself on campus late without a ride home. Related: What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge ? Those facts often put me in awkward situations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Many schools have no idea whats allowed, Murphy said, because the order doesnt clearly define whats prohibited. Day and Black History Month should be permitted, after Murphy noted that U.S. Department of Defense schools would no longer celebrate Black History Month in response to Trumps order. So whats the remedy?

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