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The Hechinger Report
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.”
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades. Lawmakers in Ohio in recent years have lifted income caps on those vouchers, along with their requirement that to be eligible, families must live in an area with schools designated as failing.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 30, 2020
While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. At Menlo, her days revolved around helping students curate their high school careers and lists of colleges.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 4, 2016
for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. Most parachute kids attend private schools, which can range from swank boarding schools like Phillips Andover, to small private day schools. A small, but growing, number attend public schools.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 16, 2020
If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Like Pearl, the district organizes its schools by grade level instead of by neighborhood. Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts. That’s no small feat, as housing and schooling are closely tied,” she said.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 13, 2017
“Students in low-income families are over six times more likely to attend a high-poverty school.”. Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. Urban Institute analysis from 2015.
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