The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Montessori Method was developed by Maria Montessori, Italy’s first female physician, who opened her first school in 1907. Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. I was so used to everybody being there for me and looking out for me.

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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

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. 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. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

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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. It is designed to expose students to organizational skills, peer support and leadership activities. I think that kind of change in thinking has happened at the school in recent years.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Since the integration order, white families — who still made up the majority of Longview’s population — had left the school district in droves for private schools, and white voters actively resisted paying to renovate the district’s schools. We have the same exact expectations for every student,” Wilcox said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

Until a few years ago, lawmakers pumped most education dollars into K-12 programs that prioritized key school-choice efforts. They increased funding for charter schools and, in 2011, created a school voucher system that has since grown into one of the largest in the country.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

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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. Her parents wanted a private school with strong academics.

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Private School K-12 Economics Public School 126

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

MARCH 20, 2018

The program allows some of North Carolina’s lowest-performing schools to have more flexibility like charter schools. Related: A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college. The principles of the model are similar to those that govern charter schools.

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Elementary School Charter School K-12 High School 99

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2021

She needs financial aid to afford University of New Haven, a private school where she now hopes to go; in late February, she was anxious. For example, Achievement First Amistad High School, a charter school about half a mile from Hillhouse High, has four college counselors for 151 seniors — plus social workers and school counselors.

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High School Charter School Public School Private School 137

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

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. Donors to the National Parents Union include the Walton Family Foundation and the City Fund, another pro-charter group. Credit: Steve Kenny. NPU now has a budget of $1.7

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

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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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Some federal money goes for state operations, some goes to charter and private schools, but the vast majority goes to educate the close to 50 million children in the country’s 14,000 public school districts. She is a conservative donor strongly tied to deregulated charter schools, vouchers, and religious education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

repeatedly asked DeVos if she believed that all schools that receive public money, including private schools, should meet the same accountability standards. Families can choose any school, public or private: Taxpayer money follows the student. Schools] can follow the law and do it poorly.”. Tim Kaine, D-Va.,

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Charter School Private School Government Public School 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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.

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Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

They also required the BIA the BIE had not yet been established to work with tribes to create a system of schools of the highest quality. The closest private schools, in Kingman, are more than two hours away. Under his leadership, the BIE has secured some financial wins for its schools.

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Education Elementary School Government K-12 117

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With coronavirus cases soaring and schools facing teacher and technology shortages, DeVos has spent the last few months urging public schools to open, under threat of losing federal money, while at the same time calling for immediate relief for private schools. It’s not that parents don’t want options.

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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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