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OCTOBER 2, 2016

law — what makes it a unique and hopeful case — it’s unclear anyone in government will be watching to make sure it achieves its goal. Lee Brand, a local pastor and member of the school board, says the town limits are a stark line. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. Hope and faith. “We

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school focused on the arts and offered a project-based curriculum, and Otto had always been creative. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged.

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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Bricolage is part of a new wave of charter schools looking to bake economic and racial diversity into their very DNA. Citywide, black students make up 82 percent of public school enrollment, while low-income children also comprise 82 percent of students. Josh Densen, founder of Bricolage Academy.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2020

Protesters demands for an end to systemic racism must include demands for an end to state support of private schools that, by gobbling up scarce financial resources, deprive Black and Brown children of a quality public education and deprive all children the benefits of diversity and inclusion. Supreme Court ruled in Espinoza v.

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APRIL 18, 2021

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Related: Homeless students set adrift by school closures face crisis after crisis. Last spring, Ciera Pritchett watched her life fall apart. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Related: San Antonio is hoping career-themed schools can alleviate a worker shortage.

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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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AUGUST 30, 2018

The entire system — the only public school system in America made up almost entirely of charter schools — had a wake-up call in 2010, when the Southern Poverty Law Center sued the Louisiana Department of Education over New Orleans charter schools’ treatment of students with disabilities. There aren’t other options,” he said.

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government prohibited discrimination in education on the basis of sex. Reeves, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brooking Institution, calls for readers to pay attention to “the specific challenges being faced by boys and men” in education, work and family life. Don’t be economically reliant on a man. Oh interesting.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. At worst, institutions under financial stress can fold — sometimes overnight, as government and accrediting oversight fails to prevent precipitous closures that throw students’ lives into disarray.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2016

And when government agencies don’t make data widely accessible – as in the case of Louisiana – research organizations, educators and parents don’t have information they need to help and inform the public. We could not say who is enrolling in public schools because those data were not available,” she said. Plyer couldn’t answer. “We

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Remember when our education secretary called HBCUs “pioneers of ‘school choice,’” completely missing the fact that black postsecondary institutions were born of government-backed segregation? The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom.”

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

repeatedly asked DeVos if she believed that all schools that receive public money, including private schools, should meet the same accountability standards. This voucher system has led to a burgeoning industry of mostly for-profit, private schools, also called “free schools.” Tim Kaine, D-Va.,

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JUNE 8, 2023

“Completely by luck, I came across a blog of undocumented students who were sharing their [college] experiences anonymously online,” he recalls, “and I applied to three private schools because I heard stories of undocumented students at those institutions.”

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

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. Turns out that most of those who can’t afford to pay private school tuition can’t dole out funds for after-school programs either. The federal government could help.

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JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. The federal government has a very limited set of carrots and sticks to encourage diversity.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Voicing the concerns of charter-school proponents after protesting at a Warren rally in Atlanta last month, parent-activist Sarah Carpenter pointed out during a meeting that followed the protest that Warren had sent one of her children to private school. Wise governments reward families who strive to propel their children.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

For instance, while Index data show that public school enrollment rose six percent, the Center did not have the data to determine whether that rise was a result of more private school parents sending their kids to public schools, or of other factors. Even researchers that have received restricted data are concerned.

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JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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JUNE 17, 2018

In cities where many of the public schools almost exclusively serve African-American children, these disproportionally white charters are the only racially diverse schools. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County.

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JULY 14, 2020

The call to “defund the police” says that funding should be diverted from a state-monopolized system to programs and policies that aid “economic and social growth, democracy and unity.” But there is a very significant parallel between government-run policing and government-run schooling. I am not a scholar.

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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. Today, I’m one of them.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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JUNE 26, 2018

While we rubbernecked at the “zero tolerance” immigration policies that have undoubtedly caused trauma to children separated from their families, last week, the White House released a 132-page proposal to restructure the federal government. Government bureaucracies that grow over time can be anathema to innovation and efficiency.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Kennedy believed that when he introduced the concept of affirmative action in 1961 in the context of government contracts. Related: A private school resets its tuition. It turns out that other people of varying backgrounds have much to offer a democracy. President John F. Moreover, students who attended four?year

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases. That means developing a skill that is hard to come by for many students of government and politics: namely, seeing that strong arguments exist on both sides of controversial issues.

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JULY 12, 2017

On the heels of a significant late June Supreme Court ruling that seemingly opens the doors for increased funneling of public taxpayer dollars to religious schools, parochial school leaders are urging leaders of the Trump administration as well as state lawmakers across the country to expand school voucher programs.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools – even those with religious orientations – and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations. Charter schools are public schools because they are funded through tax revenues.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

But experts say as the economic crisis decimates state tax revenue and forces states to slash budgets, it’s more and more likely the nation won’t have enough teachers to staff schools even once reopening is safe. She resigned from her position at a rural, private school in the Philippines after accepting an offer from Clark County.

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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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JULY 23, 2024

In addition, Project 2025 calls on Congress to look into creating a federal scholarship tax credit to “incentivize donors to contribute” to nonprofit groups that grant scholarships for private school tuition or education materials. That position matches the views expressed by Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz also required every state agency, including the department of education , to appoint tribal-state liaisons and formally consult with tribal governments. Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. —

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