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

The Hechinger Report

Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development. From there, he went on to the University of New Mexico and now works for an Albuquerque nonprofit that includes land-based and outdoor education in civic leadership programs for young people.

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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. We developed a plan that if we can train our own educators, we could, No. “I was just a secretary fighting to be a teacher,” she said.