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Charter school leaders should talk more about racism

The Hechinger Report

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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Lessons from NOLA: Ailing Mississippi district should be wary of charter schools

The Hechinger Report

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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An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM

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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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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

Related: What if public schools never reopen? Let’s consider for a moment if our egalitarian impulses, however well-intended, have prevented us from pursuing a vision of public education that could be more fruitful…. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. The results have not rewarded our faith.

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How to find minority teachers who want to stay in the job?

The Hechinger Report

It’s a nonprofit charter system that serves about 5,000 students, mostly Hispanic, primarily in the San Fernando Valley and Northeast Los Angeles. For years, education reformers, particularly in the charter school world, have focused on recruiting the best teachers. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

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A school year like no other: The class of 2021 played ‘the hand we were dealt’

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Jaden Huynh, then 16 and a sophomore at Arvada West High School in a suburb northwest of Denver, circled the dinner table plating goi — a Vietnamese salad — and spring rolls for her family’s Easter dinner and silently counted all the empty seats for cousins and extended relatives. Related: Opening the doors to elite public schools.

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It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools

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Capital City Public Charter School students doing field work. BOSTON — In 1963, Greg Farrell, an assistant dean of admissions at Princeton University, learned that an organization rooted in the teachings of a German educator was about to launch a wilderness training school in Colorado. “I Photo: EL Education.

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