The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

No one understands this struggle better than Sharolyn Miller, chief financial officer for Jackson Public Schools. All summer, Miller struggled to fix a failing HVAC system the high school couldn’t afford — just as JPS found $600,000 for two new charter schools in the city. JPS has problems: 21 failing schools, a 67.7

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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.

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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

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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The goal is for some of AIs earliest adopters in education to band together, share ideas and eventually help lead the way on what they and their colleagues around the U.S. 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. They see them as taking away voters’ right to have a say in how schools are run.

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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. Higher Education.

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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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Related: Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education Bullying of Native students by non-Native students is also a problem, said Watonga senior Happy Belle Shortman, who is Kiowa, Cheyenne and Arapaho. She said Cheyenne students have been teased over aspects of their traditional ceremonies and powwow music.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2016

Virtual charter schools can give students who are falling behind in traditional schools a chance to find success in an alternative learning environment. But can virtual charter schools fully replace the traditional face-to-face school experience? June Ahn, New York University professor.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

AP's analysis does not include data on schools managed by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education, which are not run by traditional districts. Less than 10 percent of Native American students attend BIE schools. He’s inspired,” Tenorio said. “He He tells me every day what he learns.”

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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.”. Read more about Race and Equity.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities. The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

During a back-to-school supply distribution day at KIPP TEAM Academy, a charter school in Newark, New Jersey, students picked up books they could read at home. Amy Sumner, in Columbus, Ohio, began the year with her three children in fully remote classes, but their schools have since switched to a hybrid model.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

At one table, the conversation turned to the growing pains of changing course from the traditional “sage on a stage” teaching model, where a teacher holds forth at the front of the classroom while students listen, to a student-focused, personalized model. “We Torres, on the other hand, said she misses a more traditional way of learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. Public school choice allows students like me to personalize education in order to achieve unique goals.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

birth and immigration rates have been falling since before the COVID-19 outbreak, decreasing the number of school-aged children,” according to an analysis by the firm. The pandemic accelerated these trends and sparked a shift in enrollment from traditional public schools to charter schools, homeschools, and private schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools. What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea. until 5:00 p.m.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic may have disrupted traditional classroom instruction, but it has not stopped schools from fostering meaningful connections and engaging in robust, student-centered teaching and learning. – Eric Tucker, Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (New York). – Matt Miller, Lakota Local Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. Caputo-Pearl’s “Union Power” slate vowed to place a cap on charter schools, support rank-and-file activism, and, if necessary, wield the power of the strike.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In many struggling cities like Oakland, the answer has been no, both in the regular public schools, where resources often don’t exist to replicate programs offered at high-income suburban or tony private schools, but also among the crop of urban charter schools intent on making up for those resource deficits.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. We wanted to deal with that first.”.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

I was offered a job at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School as a school social worker — but with a unique spin on the traditional role. While I still have a caseload of students who I meet with regularly, my job description explicitly states that I am the mental health provider for the staff at our school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Other stories in the series look at schools that are recruiting from their own alumni to increase diversity and a traditional teacher education program focused on recruiting Hispanic teachers. This is a very culture-heavy city and the more teachers you have who know that culture, the better the schools will be,” said Walton.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bryan Martinez, a senior at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., charter school may be a front-runner in providing financial education, but in recent years, many others have followed suit. Experts say it’s a course that doesn’t necessarily have to be taught by a traditional math teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Mississippi policymakers have welcomed charter schools as a promising solution to low test scores and persistent achievement gaps. Leave this field empty if you're human: That’s the question before the state’s authorizer board as Mississippi decides whether its first two charter schools can stay open. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to the National Association of Independent Schools, teachers at independent schools are twice as likely to leave the profession than public school teachers. I know the gravity of what it means to leave all too well. The weight of the decision and the guilt of knowing the impact it will make.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. Hirsch, Jr. Fordham Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

asked Ali, now principal of El Dorado High School in Chandler. El Dorado High School in Chandler, Ariz., is an alternative school that welcomes students who didn’t find the behavioral or academic support they needed in traditional schools. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR. So why would I go?”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

So far, MS 2, , as the school is nicknamed, has personalized its core academic courses by using the Summit Learning Platform, an online resource that has replaced traditional whole-group classroom instruction. Related: Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning.

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