The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

After years of disappointing, confusing and uneven results, charter schools are generally getting better at educating students. These schools, which are publicly financed but privately run, still have shortcomings and a large subset of them fail students, particularly those with disabilities. million students across 40 states.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The public school built in 1989 received an “F” rating on its most recent state evaluation, as did almost a third of the schools in the Jackson school district. No one understands this struggle better than Sharolyn Miller, chief financial officer for Jackson Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. The promise of greater efficiency has been an attractive argument for charters as states struggle to keep up with ever rising educational expenses.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Sameerah Abdullah sends her three school-aged kids to a cyber charter school for some of the same familiar reasons that other families across the nation do, including the flexibility and personalization. They are some of the nearly 15,000 Philly students enrolled in cyber charter schools. That is a huge problem.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 11, 2020

Thank you, Michael Walker and Sean Beaverson , for sharing how the Edina Public Schools in Minnesota are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I especially appreciated hearing about how your school district is trying to ensure that students have some deeper learning opportunities, even during the pandemic. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2019

It’s almost as if we’ve returned to the days of “separate but equal” — wherein political leaders find it easier to advocate for increased funding to some schools, predominantly low-income and minority schools, rather than call for all schools to have integrated student bodies. help to end school segregation?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Public school enrollment there fell by 7.6

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. Our principal recruits and advertises open teaching positions only to receive zero applications most of the time.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Traci Griffith, executive director of the Eliot K-8 Innovation School, part of Boston Public Schools, has found the cross-school collaboration invigorating. could do with the emerging technology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. McDonogh 35 was one of the few schools that weathered the storm mostly intact. He was formerly the principal of Edna Karr High School. Then Hurricane Katrina hit.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2014

They found that after controlling for the known effects of demographics, particularly wealth and social class, private schools (and independently run charter schools) demonstrated no advantage over public schools. Nobody disputes that schools full of rich kids do better. But what if they’re wrong?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. No one in her family had ever left home for college.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? percent fewer public school students a decade from now. Districts may also have to contend with excess real estate capacity after years of building new schools to educate a growing population and to house new charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Coahoma County will be home to the first rural charter school in the state. Rural charter schools are often seen as a threat to the scant resources available for rural public schools. The first rural charter school in Mississippi will open next August in the Delta town of Clarksdale.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. During the school year prior to Hurricane Katrina, there were 67 pre-kindergarten seats for every 100 public-school kindergarten students.

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Charter School Research K-12 Education 76

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 11, 2017

They espouse the premise that all students are entitled to equal learning opportunities and reason that since students are not getting those equal opportunities in public school, they should be allowed to go elsewhere. Education reformers want double standards for THEIR schools. Thinking about charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — The central tenet of nearly any successful recruitment strategy is to emphasize the positives and downplay problems, but Josh Densen was engaging in a different kind of hard sell at a school tour back in early November. I believe Bricolage is a school for all kids, but not all adults.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the first story, or revelation, the overarching theme is the stunning amount of sharing that went on about this elite group (roughly the top 20 percent of all charter schools, the schools that add roughly a year-and-a-half of learning for every year a student spends there). . It really didn’t have to turn out like it did.

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Charter School Advocacy Public School High School 69

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

For starters, the study took place at nine charter schools in Colorado, stretching from Denver to Fort Collins. The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 13, 2024

Tim Slekar and Dr. Johnny Lupinacci about the current state of public education. It was aired on their show “Busted Pencils,” which is dedicated to teachers, students, and public schools. We talked about charters, vouchers, testing, and how to get involved. Everyone can stand up for what they believe.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. He’s inspired,” Tenorio said. “He He tells me every day what he learns.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Charter School Psychology K-12 Project-Based Learning 88

Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2021

(School Districts, Charter Networks, Organizations). Schools Everett Public Schools National Association of Charter School Authorizers. Atlanta Public Schools Friendship Public Charter Schools Native American Community Academy.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

School choice plays a role in recent segregation Why is segregation creeping back up again? The expiration of court orders that mandated school integration and the expansion of school choice policies, including the rapid growth of charter schools, explains all of the increase in segregation from 2000 onward, said Reardon.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

– Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut). – Dr. Brown, Reynoldsburg City Schools (Ohio). “We – Dr. Michael Nagler, Mineola Public Schools (New York). “We – Eric Tucker, Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (New York). – Matt Miller, Lakota Local Schools.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Snapshots include Covina Valley School District in Covina, CA, where the CISCO Networking Academies allow high school students to study the latest networking, security, and cloud technologies. At Liberty 53 Public Schools in Liberty, Missouri, the “UnSchool Challenge” offers students personalized internship opportunities.

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Charter School Leadership Public School High School 178

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The district has indicated that it will likely vote to close four public schools due to insufficient funds. If this happens, other districts will probably follow: The state’s recent universal voucher expansion has predictably accelerated the diversion of money from public to private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. Massachusetts now has 41 innovation schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books.

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Charter School Private School Government Public School 134

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. 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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For the same reason, school districts with a high proportion of charter schools fared better too. Charter school staff provided a second pool of teachers for the public schools to hire away. “It only works well if there is a large supply of teachers to hire,” said Bleiberg.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

The schools we head in the San Francisco Bay Area, Alpha Public Schools and Cristo Rey San José , collectively serve 198 high school seniors, the majority of whom will be first-generation college students – including a significant portion with undocumented parents.

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Charter School Public School High School Education 142

Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Our first edtech peer learning cohort (2022-23) featured nine teams, ranging from a single-site charter school to a large urban district, as well as a regional team of smaller, rural districts. Each team worked on addressing a specific problem of practice in their school system.

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