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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. public education. Civil-rights activists know better.

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JUNE 18, 2018

all students between the ages of 5 and 21 who attend a public school, including charters and private schools, are eligible to ride the bus systems (Metrobus, DC Circulator) and rail system (Metrorail) to school and school related activities for free. Transportation is also a workforce issue. Weekly Update.

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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. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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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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JUNE 23, 2016

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). Private schools, although an increasing threat to public education, are still a relatively small slice of the educational system.

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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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AUGUST 30, 2018

When Kali gets calls from school about Langston’s behavior, she said, the focus isn’t your kid is in trouble but rather how can we help? Instead of them being penalized for being little humans, they’re going to be given coping skills and mechanisms to help them be little humans,” Kali said. There aren’t other options,” he said.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Activities like this one have taken on a near-ritualistic quality at Groves’ school, Washington-Lee Elementary, which serves a high-poverty student body in southern Appalachia. Related: A school where character matters as much as academics. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

So, religious schools could not receive federal aid to supplement salaries—but might receive it to construct buildings or buy textbooks. Russell Lee, “The school day opens with prayer at private school at the Farm Bureau building.” ” Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 June.

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JUNE 17, 2018

In the heart of an economically depressed area of the South known as the Black Belt — both for the color of its soil and for its large, African-American population, most descended from slaves — Greene County seemed a strange place to put a Ritz-Carlton and a golf course. In December of 2006, the school board called a special meeting.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In grade school, Bowie and his younger brother were their mother’s pride and joy. Always at the top of their class, they were also fierce leaders of the debate team, and beat even the top local private schools. One day Bowie found his brother drenched in sweat and passed out at the school’s track.

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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 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. Weekly Update.

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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. Families can choose any school, public or private: Taxpayer money follows the student. Jonas Vlachos, economics professor at the University of Stockholm.

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JUNE 26, 2018

However, to collapse education and labor into a single agency is to also reduce education’s role in developing full human beings. Children need to view themselves as full human beings, as citizens even, something a good liberal arts foundation provides. Department of Health Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services).

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X, the notion that separate and equal is not only possible, but in some cases preferable, has been a rallying point for those who believe that black educators should be the ones designing and leading schools for black children. Related: Early evidence of a ‘Trump effect’ on bullying in schools.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

His wife, Leslie Johnson-Simmons, said she saw her creative, smart and chatty daughter retreat into herself as she tried to learn to spell like other first graders in her class at a private school in Louisiana. Her parents say she has thrived at the school. Still, the school has a B rating for student progress.

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MARCH 9, 2021

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. We want human interaction and not to be glued to our computers all the time.”. The students Amia was about to meet online were particularly vulnerable. There’s no change.

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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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AUGUST 12, 2024

School choice Harris, who was endorsed by the nation’s largest public school teachers unions, has voiced support for public schools, but has said little about school vouchers or school choice. Educating Early Read comprehensive coverage of young learners with Hechinger’s biweekly Early Childhood newsletter.

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