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It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. She held it together all day at school and then would explode.”

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JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Estonia had the second smallest gap in performance between its poorest and richest students out of all participating countries known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Related: A school where character matters as much as academics. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. — The PTA withered. Teacher morale sunk.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

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JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high schools. This can have a long-term impact; the rigor of high school courses has been found to be the No. In Washington, D.C.,

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Holley said the staff at Rupert Elementary School in Crawley, West Virginia, where she teaches, has pulled together and she’s never felt more supported. Her 42 students come from all eight district elementary schools, she said, representing both the high- and low-income areas of her small city in central Oregon.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. School board members approved the increase in May. Teachers are working harder,” she said.

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JANUARY 1, 2018

Some of the students who attended the public Montessori schools had family incomes as high as $200,000 a year. Half of them attended a private school; others went to a federally funded Head Start program. The students who “lost” the lottery all ended up at some other sort of preschool.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

Malaysia Robertson, 9, outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Credit: Christiana Botic for The Hechinger Report A “watch for children” sign outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La.,

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Brian Sparks is the principal at Lamar Elementary School in San Antonio. He helps out with cafeteria duties on the first day of school. Related: San Antonio is hoping career-themed schools can alleviate a worker shortage. Isabel Nava teaches second and third grade ESL classes at Lamar Elementary School in San Antonio.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This story is the third of a three-part series that examines how other countries approach the idea of school choice. Read about school choice in New Zealand and Sweden. Parents are freed from financial constraints and can pick a school in which their child will thrive, leading to improved academic outcomes for all children.

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JULY 21, 2020

In Austin, 53 percent of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged. Some don’t want to home-school, but feel their children are too young for remote learning, so are considering spending tens of thousands of dollars on private schools that are planning to open this fall.

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JULY 2, 2018

I am a white father who spends two hours on the New York City subway every day with my 10-year-old so he can attend an underfunded, desegregated public elementary school with a majority of black and Latino students and a majority of economically disadvantaged students. They were private schools.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Elementary school students clap and spell words after school. If you are a working parent with regular office hours, the group that your child belongs to depends on how much you can afford to pay for after-school care. Photo: Imani Khayyam. Unfortunately, the free, public part of education ends when the bell sounds.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. The school had 10 principals in as many years. She graduated valedictorian of her class.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

On average, black and Hispanic students nationally attend schools in which two-thirds of students are from low-income families, the researchers found. A number of white families left the public schools in these communities in the 1960s and 1970s to start these small, private academies , many of which still thrive.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5

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