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

JANUARY 29, 2020

Supreme Court tax-credit decision won’t change much in terms of public-school spending requirements. Yet their expansion has been relatively modest in comparison to that of charter schools. This brings us back to charter schools. The ripple effects may even be felt by the charter-school sector.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

We are thrilled to announce the following new district members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools: Baldwin-Whitehall School District , PA. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools , NY. Copper River School District , AK. Covina-Valley School District , CA. Huntsville City Schools , AL.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2015

We can’t do what that other school is doing because… they are bigger and have more resources. they have a more supportive school board. they can get kids to come before school. they can get kids to come after school. they can get kids to come during school. they are a private school. they have paras.

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Charter School Leadership Private School Professional Development 103

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 11, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 018 – Northern Cass School District.

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Public School Charter School Elementary School Leadership 104

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 025 – International School of Amsterdam. Coronavirus Chronicles 020 – Arrow Academy Charter Schools.

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Middle School Charter School Leadership Public School 102

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 018 – Northern Cass School District.

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High School Charter School Elementary School Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2024

States should provide financial relief, political cover and regulatory flexibility for districts that demonstrate solid plans and strong leadership. Not all urban school districts have bold leadership that can help them overcome the odds, even with strong state-level support. Have a Plan B.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

There are significant differences between schools where children start at or above grade level and where children start below grade level Schools where students enter at or above grade level Schools where students enter below grade level Schools where students enter below grade level, but students grow at least 1.3

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 018 – Northern Cass School District.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. UTLA has organized charter-school teachers and sued Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a local charter network, for union-busting.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Children become conditioned to make good choices when adults are around, but they don’t internalize the long-lasting habits and mindsets that lead to leadership. At [my high-performing charter school] someone would see you struggling and go out of their way to help you.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Absolutely not,” said Megan Benay, senior national director of data systems and strategy at Great Oaks Charter Schools, a network of charter schools that focuses on preparing kids for college through personalized tutoring. “As Colleen Collins, school director at CICS West Belden, works with students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In Milwaukee Public Schools, teachers had access to biweekly virtual coaching to support the switch to remote learning. The national public charter school network Rocketship Public Schools set aside nearly a full day every week for teachers to learn new skills related to distance learning. There are different approaches.

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K-12 Professional Development Charter School Psychology 145

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to the National Association of Independent Schools, teachers at independent schools are twice as likely to leave the profession than public school teachers. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years. In my first school, the workload was unbearable. My teaching career has been turbulent.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

I still remember my excitement to borrow books from the school library so that I could better understand life beyond my poverty-stricken world. Like most new school chiefs, I immediately dug into the data to find out what was happening. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Charter School Professional Development Library Elementary School 112

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

On May 25, the Nevada-based management group of the New Orleans charter school, Crescent Leadership Academy, announced the firing of its principal, Nicholas Dean. Rite of Passage , the chain that manages Crescent Leadership Academy, then determined he wasn’t a good fit for the job.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

School budgets are getting squeezed as Covid stimulus winds down. And traditional public schools are facing increased competition from charter schools and independent schools. Within our schools, we believe in strengthening teacher leadership development.

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Education Charter School High School Critical Thinking 120

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Since its inception in 2002, Making Community Connections Charter School (MC 2 ) has been committed to personalizing learning. Learning for a purpose is deeper and longer lasting; leadership means taking responsibility for what matters to you, something every person, whether adult, child, or in between, can learn to do.

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Charter School Advocacy Leadership Humanities 104

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

(The Mathematica researchers focused on borderline schools that were just below and above a federal threshold to qualify for turnaround funds and found that the schools that went through turnarounds didn’t have better outcomes than those that didn’t.). Stricter school discipline for students has been a common theme in many turnarounds.

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Charter School High School Leadership Tradition 128

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

Davis Leadership Academy, a public charter school in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, I was eager to find a way to help students retain knowledge from the prior school year and practice their math skills over the summer. Davis Leadership Academy, a public charter school in Boston.

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High School Charter School Leadership Middle School 78

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

In some cases, schools employ leaders who focus primarily on administration, not teaching, although decision making still happens collaboratively with teachers. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last week, in a letter addressed to the “KIPP Team and Family,” the executive leadership of the powerful charter school network announced the dismissal of one of its co-founders, Mike Feinberg, stemming from a sexual abuse allegation by one of Feinberg’s students from the late 1990s.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The school is one of 10 winners of the XQ: The Super School Project competition and will be awarded $10 million from the XQ Institute, an initiative designed to encourage schools to invent new ways to update and redesign America’s high schools, which it argues “remain frozen in time.”.

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High School Museum Charter School Tutoring 94

Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Leigh Bozard, Director of Special Projects, SELF (Special Education Leadership Fellowship). Joel Coleman, Superintendent, Utah School for the Deaf and Blind. Jennifer Kelsall, Superintendent, Ridgewood High School District 234, New Jersey. Alexis Mays Fields, Special Education Coach for Center City Public Charter Schools, D.C.

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Charter School Educational Technology Professional Development Community Engagement 113

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Christopher House, a nonprofit that runs a high-performing elementary charter school and a small network of public preschools in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, has infused parental support into its model. Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House.

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Charter School Elementary School Public School Leadership 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

The Learning Accelerator winnowed it down to six top-performing schools. Aaron Academy (“ReNEW DTA”) a non-selective charter school in New Orleans. Related: How an unconventional principal used blended learning to help turn around a struggling urban school.

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Charter School Elementary School Leadership Educational Technology 67

ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2023

These tech teams offer a unique opportunity for students to take on leadership roles and develop valuable skills like problem-solving, teamwork, communication and critical thinking, in addition to increasing their technical know-how. But interestingly enough, some of our most vocal advocates who take leadership roles on the team are females.

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Charter School Leadership Critical Thinking Middle School 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Department of Education officials estimated that 82 percent of schools would fall short.

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Charter School Elementary School Leadership Advocacy 77

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It focused on four unidentified high schools, two in the Southeast, one in New England and one in the Midwest. They included traditional public schools, a magnet school and a charter school. Sometimes, the students had clear roles and rotated the leadership role.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

The average public school counselor in the United States is responsible for 483 students, according to the American School Counselor Association and National Association of College Admissions Counselors , nearly twice the caseload the association recommends. In California, it’s one counselor to 760 students.

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High School Charter School Economics Leadership 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The pair planned to ensure that the school would reflect the diversity of the Somerville Public Schools, in which about 42 percent of students are Latino, 10 percent are black, 37 percent are white and 43 percent come from low-income households. The plan pulled from best practices in school innovation from all over the country.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Related: School district secessions gather speed, new report shows. It also laid the groundwork for a robust market of goods and services designed to help families learn the “hidden curriculum” of school-choice policies and engage in choice behaviors that yield desired school assignments.

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K-12 Charter School Pedagogy Public School 109