The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Arise Academy in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward is part of the city’s diffuse network of nearly 80 charter schools. NEW ORLEANS — Frank Rabalais had big plans for the school just around the corner from his house in Gentilly Terrace, a leafy neighborhood that is one the most racially and socioeconomically diverse corners of the city.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase , came together in just a handful of months. Its opening ends the city’s five-year run as the only all-charter school district in the nation. Charter schools receive public funding, but are independently run.

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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

MARCH 19, 2022

Vladimir Kogan, an associate professor of political science at Ohio State University, said that parents become more willing to send their children to school when districts are open for full-time, in-person instruction — and remove other options. Be the same Daniel Tiger that your teachers are accustomed to,” she said.

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K-12 Charter School Political Science Elementary School 110

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

MAY 12, 2021

Teachers in nonunionized charter schools also prevented pre-vaccine school in-person reopenings by quitting or threatening to do so when they knew no one was waiting to take their place. Most of these teachers lacked a formal right to collective bargaining; they couldn’t threaten to go out on strike. Paul, Minnesota.

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Government Charter School Political Science Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

For most of the past two decades, those battles have been waged primarily among East Coast liberals over standardized testing and charter schools. Now the fight is less about how public schools can achieve excellence, and more about how they can survive. “In The Hechinger Report is an independent unit of Teachers College.)

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