The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — Six years ago, author and creative writing teacher Anne Gisleson was looking for a school for her 4-year-old son, Otto, who attended a private Lutheran preschool in her Bywater neighborhood. But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. Related: Will high school segregation for refugees lead to better integration?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For parents applying to the dual-language program at Rochester, New York’s public school No. Widespread gentrification in the 1990s and early 2000s also brought many white and well-off families back to some urban neighborhoods where dual-language schools were taking root. The number of dual-language public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. At Western Middle, 60 percent of the roughly 700 students are Black, 11 percent are Hispanic or Latino, and 70 percent are considered economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Among the proposed cuts are grant programs, including Teacher Education Assistance grants (for those who agree to teach, after college, for four years in a public school serving low-income families) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income levels).

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

Jesse Hagopian , Rethinking Schools editor, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives, and Zinn Education Project leadership team member Astoundingly, today, almost half of all children in the public schools are in a jurisdiction that has passed a law or policy that bans honest education , about race, about gender, about sexuality.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Howard Fuller, former superintendent of Milwaukee’s public schools. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools. Fuller’s remedy? The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families in Arizona can now withdraw their children from public schools and receive state funding to cover private school tuition. Franklin/Associated Press A Hechinger Report analysis of dozens of private school websites revealed that, among 55 that posted their tuition rates, nearly all raised their prices since 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Yakima, an agricultural hub surrounded by orchards amid dry hills, was hit hard by both the pandemic and the attendant economic collapse. Carts loaded with 10-meal bags wait in a walk-in cooler at Washington Middle School. The need created by the pandemic’s economic shock is unprecedented, McDonough said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

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 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.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This is actually an economic issue. The Heritage Foundation, the conservative group that crafted Project 2025 , a proposed blueprint for former President Donald Trump’s potential second term in office, calls for Congress to encourage on-site employee child care, saying it “puts the least stress on the parent-child bond.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This is actually an economic issue. When we care about something and decide it has enough societal value — whether public schools or roads or parks — we find the money,” Haspel said. She sees child care as both an economic and social issue. “I This isn’t a mom issue. This is a family issue,’” Chang said. Related: D.C.

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