The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. Related: Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 25, 2023
Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. At Avalon Charter School, in St.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 20, 2019
19, decided to run for school board last year because of the inequalities he witnessed at his hometown schools. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. Stanley Celestine Jr.,
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 30, 2017
A college prep class at Match Charter is devoted to figuring out financial aid. This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Photo: Kim Palmer.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Demand will likely grow because the supply will not: Voters in Massachusetts overwhelming rejected a ballot question last month to expand charter schools (62 percent rejected it; 38 percent supported it). Goals: To get into a school I am excited about and have the financial support to actually attend; to study sociology.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Related: Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students look like schools for affluent white kids? Hitting a child doesn’t speak well about the quality of teaching in a school. It does say that schools will consider and include punishment as an effective means of teaching.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
He has called on states to contribute an additional $110 billion of their own education budgets toward school choice, with the goal of providing approximately $12,000 in school-choice funds to “every K-12 student who today lives in poverty.” As for the state allocation, Trump seems to be relying on the power of persuasion.
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