The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo, who is considered a key architect of the anti-CRT movement, tweeted his intention in 2021 to redefine CRT “to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.”

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JANUARY 21, 2024

For the purpose of standardized tests, this principle serves as a reminder that efforts around assessment are not separate from the necessary work of culturally responsive teaching , equity, trauma-informed practices , and research-based pedagogy. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Harvard University Press.

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JULY 30, 2024

Yet in their approach to this task, they are also responsible to administrators, parents, school boards—and, increasingly, to state and federal courts. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” The court reasoned that it is proper for schools to uphold standards of civil speech during school activities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

“It was disheartening for me to recognize the flaws in the educational reform movement and the role that I had played in the inequity of how we educate black and brown kids.”. Kimberly Neal, Innovation Fellow in Indianapolis Public Schools. “It Kimberly Neal, Innovation Fellow in Indianapolis Public Schools.

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MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The next month, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed into law a measure that allows any person enrolled in a degree-granting program to teach in public schools. In the 2021-2022 academic year, students of color represented approximately 63 percent of the public school populations in Arizona and Florida.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Photo: Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. public schools. Screenshot of teacher dashboards from Atlanta Public Schools.

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I think that there are some big questions that we have to ask as a state after the Governor’s school funding veto. Budgets reflect policy priorities. How big a priority are our public schools? Midwest educators are doubly nice, both because of the culture of where we live and because of our profession.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2016

“When you think about the numbers of students, and we have this huge language barrier, and there are these cultural differences,” LeRoy said. It’s a new type of thinking about the educational system.”. Related: In a conservative corner of Arkansas, schools welcome immigrants. education debate.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Across the country, public schools play a critical role in integrating them into American society and setting them up for long term success: By equipping them with English mastery. As public leaders seek to educate these students equitably, a lively debate has ensued over how to best instruct these students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Two years ago, Connecticut’s governor moved to recognize the work of public school paraprofessionals. Related: In a conservative corner of Arkansas, schools welcome immigrants. Kaylan Connally is a policy analyst in the Education Policy Program at New America.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

When New Schools for New Orleans announced the competitive grant contest, 23 schools — about a quarter of all public schools in New Orleans — expressed interest by attending workshops on personalized learning. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

The Jefferson County Public Schools, which encompass Louisville, have said the district is committed to supporting those students to help bring their reading and math achievement on par with their native English-speaking classmates. But she also cautioned that it could mask somewhat the gap that English learners have.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

These options include microschools like Valles’ Ellemercito Academy, homeschooling coops like Engaged Detroit , “classical” options such as Haven School (focused on nature) in Colorado and Bridges Virtual Academy in Wisconsin, among others that spoke about their work. At Harvard, the state’s education commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It’s the first time the district has opened its own school since Hurricane Katrina swept through the city nearly two decades ago. The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase , came together in just a handful of months. That was one factor in wanting to keep this particular building open.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It’s about the viability of public education in their community. The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. This is not hyperbole. just before Labor Day weekend.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School. The school is steeped in history: It was the first African American public school in Kentucky, and counts boxer Muhammad Ali among its alumni.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. school leaders said they’ve been taking for the past few years as they started their own efforts to rethink the city’s schools. Public Schools. In 2018, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

And at the end of the 20th century, groups like the Eagle Forum left a growing imprint on education policy in the state. “It People who in that time wanted to have books make a ton of money for them as public school adoptions had to understand: That was not an educational process. “The

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Ketron, a coordinator of development at a community mental health center just across the border in Indiana, also founded doit4Meryl , a nonprofit that advocates for mental health education and suicide prevention, specifically for LGBTQ+ youth in rural communities like hers. Few adults in Meryl’s schools took action to stop it, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2025

Teachers unions, parents groups and organizations advocating for the separation of church and state have said that rulings in favor of the plaintiffs could open the door for all types of religious programs to become part of public schooling and give parents veto rights on what is taught. percent of all public school students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

But France hasn’t erased the all the barriers that prevent lower-income families from accessing the best schools, even with huge amounts of government money poured into helping them get a leg up. The country still has a multi-tiered system, with low-income students frequently shut out of the most elite private and public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In Utah, a bill originally designed to ensure that sex education curriculum included information about sexual consent was revised several times before failing in the House early this year. In both 2019 and 2020, the Mississippi House of Representatives tried and failed to make sex education more comprehensive in the state’s public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” All of this reached a boiling point last April, when Pennridge hired a brand-new consultancy firm called Vermilion Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

She attributes her ability to persevere to the supportive community at her unusual public school, which serves students in grades six to 12 and is geared entirely towards pregnant and parenting teenagers. “We State policy on sexual health education varies greatly, making it difficult to analyze the effects of any one approach.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At the state level, funds that were targeted for local education agencies are diverted to vouchers for individual children, a sharp loss in the funding that states historically have provided to school districts. The shift of funds away from public school districts creates further stresses on traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

See, whatever you thought about the Harris-Walz ticket’s particular proposals, the Democrats had things to say about education issues that genuinely shape children’s development: affordable early care and learning, access to nutritious school meals, funding for English learners , and more. public schools reeling.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

On that basis, we could expect more debates about bathrooms and women’s sports , more inexplicable musings about whether slavery had benefits for enslaved Americans, more spending of scarce resources to put Bibles in public schools and more singling out of kids because of their immigration status. Department of Education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 30, 2025

Experts in education policy and school discipline told EdSurge that the executive order, vague on details, goes against evidence that discipline is unequally applied to Black students, and that alternatives to removing students from school are actually best for learning. Public Schools." Source: U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Related: What education could look like under Trump and Vance Trump has made a series of startling choices for his initial cabinet picks, often favoring loyalists with little experience or advocates whose goals are opposed to the agencies he wants them to lead. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2023

Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Unlike the first Joyful Warriors national summit last year in Tampa, Florida, this year’s event drew large protests. This year, the disinformation about what actually happens in public school took on the sheen of familiarity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. His administration made it possible for parents to use their children’s 529 college savings plan to pay for up to $10,000 annually in private school tuition.

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