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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Opening the doors to elite public schools

The Hechinger Report

A group of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP Boston Branch, the Greater Boston Latino Network, the Asian Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network and the Asian American Resource Workshop, as well as three families of color, are intervening in the lawsuit to try to uphold the new admissions process.

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How grassroots efforts are trying to solve the teacher shortage crisis

The Hechinger Report

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. Adrienne Hudson speaks to fellow educators during the RISE Teacher’s Night Out at the Crossroads Cultural Arts Center in Clarksdale, Mississippi last December.

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Without local school boards, parents in poor communities lose their vote

The Hechinger Report

It suffocates the civic impulse. Math and literacy tutors showed up once a week, or just once a month. She was ready for schools that reflected the community’s voice, priorities and diverse cultures. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park. “It The school board has no power.”. Highland Park is a microcosm of the Rust Belt.

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College Uncovered: DEI Backlash

The Hechinger Report

College campuses have become battlegrounds in America’s culture wars, with diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the center of the debate. Millions in state funding originally set aside for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, or DEI, is now being redirected to race-neutral programs, including civics education.