The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Let’s consider for a moment if our egalitarian impulses, however well-intended, have prevented us from pursuing a vision of public education that could be more fruitful…. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. and “What do we want every child to experience?”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

But the school recently saw its state report card rating tumble. Related: ‘We’ve failed them’: How South Carolina education policy hurts ‘Dreamers’ — and costs taxpayers. White parents still prefer Clarendon Hall, one of many rural private schools in the South opened in the desegregation era of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2024

The legislation also made it easier for districts to fire teachers, among other changes.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. Stronger Together represents some redemption for schools like Morris Jeff, which was denied start-up charter grants because of its mission.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Tuition, fees, and room and board went up by 34 percent at public colleges and universities between the 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 school years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. At nonprofit private schools, the increase was 26 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. And that’s just the average number of applications per student. This year we’re looking at 30.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Montana Department of Revenue , those who think that more private learning options should be available to families and those who disagree are squinting to see an outcome that — like it or not — immediately shakes up traditional K-12 schools in the United States. Is change forthcoming? Sign up for our newsletter. The post OPINION: U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Board members began pushing to renovate some of the old school buildings in the late 90s. Since the integration order, white families — who still made up the majority of Longview’s population — had left the school district in droves for private schools, and white voters actively resisted paying to renovate the district’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

According to a 2018 Education Next poll , parents rate 15 percent of their local school’s teachers as “unsatisfactory,” which suggests that over the course of their children’s education, parents are likely to face the problem of an unsatisfactory teacher. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

“I think that there is a broad and sensible middle-of-the-country who is interested in common sense, popular education policy opinions, [and] that is sometimes not well-represented by two extremes,” Polikoff says. Overall, 73 percent of participants said funds should go to public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. But the foundational knowledge, the skills to be able to learn and do well in school later are so important. Kindergarten matters a lot.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Related: School choice had a big moment in the pandemic but is it what parents want for the long run? Speakers at last week’s conference, sponsored by Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and G overnance, offered no such dissenting views.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order in April 2022 restricting how race and equity can be taught in the classroom, Tilsen-Brave Heart decided to enroll her daughter at Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, a newly opened private school in Rapid City. Plans are to seek accreditation and add a grade each year.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2017

Ethical dilemmas abound in education. Should middle school teachers let a failing eighth-grade student graduate, knowing that if she’s held back, she’ll likely drop out? Should a private school principal condone inflated grades? The cases also give educators a chance to consider diverse perspectives.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2025

Patrick Wolf, a professor of education policy who studies school choice at the University of Arkansas, was also dismayed by the loss of the Education Departments statistics. A federal government agency has been collecting national statistics on education since 1867, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. I can’t do that. I’m usually 10 minutes late to Zoom meetings on my own.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump say that the solution to persistent inequality in educational opportunity is to provide parents with more choices. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Republicans and many Democrats ran successfully last year demanding that the Department of Education stop using billions in federal aid to skew local decision-making. The new Every Student Succeeds Act , replacing No Child Left Behind, was passed in large measure to return education policies to states and local districts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Similar to efforts to open charter schools or offer vouchers for private schools, Course Access aims to allow students (usually in high school) and their families to make choices — in this case, about where to go for individual classes. “We don’t want to lose students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

I am an education policy professor who has spent almost two decades studying programs like these, and trying to follow the data where it leads. That’s because there aren’t enough decent private schools to serve at-risk kids. I’ve walked through hallways and seen signs promising an education of “Tradition!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. Her qualification to be Secretary of Education? Scenario #1: DeVos moves quickly to implement President-Elect Trump’s plan to use $20 billion of federal funds for block grants to states to support vouchers for poor children to attend private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Rick Hess, director of education policy strategies, American Enterprise Institute. Higher education experts have said Trump’s plan could push college out of reach for low-income students. “He is trying to say, ‘I’m planting my flag on bold and progressive plans, but I’m a technocrat with smart people.’

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

Translated from the original Russian, Reagan’s use of the phrase annoyed Mikhail Gorbachev, but it didn’t really represent a policy strategy. Is there a place for “trust, but verify” in education policy?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2017

Or even types of schools. Private schools? I know a lot of conservatives have been really excited about getting at private schools. Emmanuel: Well, I think we’ve just seen Trump’s first real education policy and I think this gives us a window on what we can expect from the next three and a half years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

She resigned from her position at a rural, private school in the Philippines after accepting an offer from Clark County. Her country’s stay-at-home order, now entering its fifth month, also prevented Posada-Ingles from finishing her doctoral program in special education. In Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Trump talks about schools secretly imposing gender transition surgery on children. Finally, it’s likely that the administration will try to voucherize more public dollars to support families sending their children to private schools. Related: How would Project 2025 change education? public schools reeling.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

In Mississippi, a school choice rally drew huge support: On Monday, hundreds of students, parents and teachers held aloft “School Choice Now!” signs in honor of National School Choice Week , pushing for options including more charter and magnet schools, home schooling and vouchers for private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

Her oral confirmation testimony earlier this month was a cringe-worthy performance, featuring guns vs. grizzlies and her refusal to commit to the same accountability standards for charter and private schools as are in place for traditional public schools that receive taxpayer funds. Pallas weighs in. The really, really bad.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In Trump’s official GOP party platform, universal vouchers are the second education agenda item, behind a call to end teacher tenure. Both items follow a general statement about making great schools. These schools are free to discriminate on admissions and expulsion decisions across a variety of child characteristics.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We pay a great deal of our taxes toward education. She described a period of visiting charter, public, and private schools before Gov. Jodi Rell, a friend, invited her in 2009 to fill a vacancy on the Connecticut State Board of Education. “I McMahon said. It’s a very wealthy community. How can that happen?”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. His administration made it possible for parents to use their children’s 529 college savings plan to pay for up to $10,000 annually in private school tuition.

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