The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

An Idaho nonprofit group identified Twin Falls — where student enrollment is projected to rise by an additional 17 percent through the end of this decade — as a potential growth market for new charter schools. Cedar, sixth grader, Bozeman Online Charter School. You go through the hallways and can’t get anywhere.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For example, at the progressive charter school where I work, we’ve launched a pilot program of what we call inquiry projects. Using living rooms and libraries for classrooms, teachers or parents help kids through the curriculum, then fill the rest of the day with outdoor activities, art, movement and projects.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Iturralde has worked at Kingsburg Elementary Charter School District, a five-campus district in the rural Central Valley of California, for seven years. Lee and Iturralde say their charter schools’ cohort-style learning is a huge benefit for students and teachers. Why it works. I get new books every week,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Jaguar Academy is often library-quiet. We take the tests. Nor are seniors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some nights, Duggan faced four hours of homework after a day of school and dancing that stretched into the evening, “I would just break down crying and saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore!’ ” she recalled. The secret to VLACS’ success may be that it does things differently from most virtual schools. Her parents agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Despite the innovative ethos of its tech-world backers, the school’s approach to core subjects was “very traditional,” according to Wesley Davidson, an English teacher at ChiTech. As part of the deal, they partnered with High Tech High, a San Diego-based charter school network and a national leader in project-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was proof that his initiative to break up large campuses into smaller, more personal schools was working. Nearly half of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended during the 2013-14 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Without a doubt, Katrina was a key factor for nearly all of this year’s overage seniors, who were not solely “held back” in the traditional sense. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises.

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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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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. But critics complained that the ambitious plan shortchanged more traditional forms of scholarship and caused the university to fall in national rankings.

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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 still just not even close to what the traditional public schools go through. It’s very flexible.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2017

In New Orleans, the school board is poised to make this the first all-charter district in the country with its plans to convert the remaining five schools that it manages into charter schools. The five schools will form a network that will be managed by an organization created last week.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

I Promise is a public-private partnership between the Akron School District and the LeBron James Family Foundation, a unique model that exemplifies LeBron’s exceptional abilities to see the bigger picture in the role education plays in community development. Capdau School, under Louisiana’s Recovery School District legislation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

The school got new computers and a library. Now President Donald Trump has launched an aggressive downsizing of government that will bring sweeping layoffs to the Interior Department and the BIE, and turn the bureau into a school choice program. Two months into the school year, though, Hastings didnt see any progress in Kyla.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Secretary of Education, is giving parents freedom of choice, either to choose charter schools or to use vouchers to buy an education at any school they like, public or private. Thanks to a relatively new state policy, all spring Clarke went to the school library during second period for an online sociology class. “It

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

Consequently, this will be a major blow to those in government jobs with high unionization rates like protective services, library services and education. I also saw Democrats claim political agnosticism, working alongside the likes of Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, who also tried to convert more traditional schools to charters.

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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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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

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.

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