The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A former superintendent of nearby Spring Branch Independent School District, he is now a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Houston. But Klussmann is more interested to know what the student experience is in these schools. Duncan Klussmann agreed with Yarborough’s assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. It also added parent and student liaisons who would have a voice in the leadership of the project. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. Department of Education released guidance that clarified regularly sending a child home early was likely akin to a suspension, and should be reported by the school. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Lori Raineri, president of the Sacramento-based independent public consulting company Government Financial Strategies, says she frequently hears from school district leaders who relied on relationships, referrals or marketing to choose their financial team but lack the quantitative expertise to evaluate the advice they get.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EdClusters are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (families, local government, nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. The spirit of creation and entrepreneurship extends across the ecosystem.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. To this day, I am fortunate to have a two-decade-long relationship with my former elementary school teacher, Mrs. Gray, an educator that inspired me to become a teacher. Victoria was in my U.S.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Cultivating leadership in staff, parents, and community partners. Focus on Student Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Among reasons a school might leave the network: the fee, which starts at about $50,000 a year for new schools that need a lot of support and drops to about $15,000 for more seasoned members; a new principal who wants to champion his or her own approach, or simply a poor fit. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Beard is black and had two kids go through Longview schools. It was reprinted with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Charter schools receive roughly the same funding from the state as district schools, based on the number of students enrolled. This tendency gives conservative legislators, adverse to big-government, further ammunition to deny adequate funding to traditional districts like JPS. In the meantime, Miller has few choices at JPS.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

The district’s first school board meeting on August 3, 1970, had 19 agenda items, including determining the district’s sick leave policy and finding furniture for the elementary school. For the first few years, white students refused to elect black students to the homecoming court and to leadership positions, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The statistics for foster youth are bleak: Just 58 percent of youth involved with the foster care system have graduated from high school by age 19, compared to 87 percent of the general population. Her grandparents are vigilant about her school work. She attends a local elementary school, where Matt Rhoda is the principal.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The country’s Education Review Office publishes reports on the quality of education at each school, which includes information about student performance, curriculum and leadership, about once every three years. Just about anyone in education would agree schools should be judged on more than just test scores.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). Aubrey Francisco (@aubreyfrancisco) September 22, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Most still read at an elementary school level. By her sophomore year, Williams was earning all A’s and B’s, and Sci’s test scores were the best of any open-enrollment high school in the city. And some of her high school classmates had reached the middle class even though they’d dropped out of college.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Five and six year old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators,” Johnson told his audience as he explained that the federal government would be, for the first time, funding education and health services for children living in poverty in the form of a public preschool program. Former President George W.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2022

Bamboo conducted its pilot study at a charter elementary school in Oklahoma City throughout March and April. School leadership has to drive that requirement: ‘Unless you have x, y and z, we can’t evaluate you.’ Fine, too, sees an appetite among district leaders for companies to show evidence. “I Maybe not yet.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Kami Karr , senior at Redmond High School. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved. And then you get into middle school, and then, like, the internet starts becoming a thing. The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Students at Barwell Road Elementary School Photo: Alex Granados/EducationNC. Her school, Haw River Elementary in Alamance County, was offering students after-school clubs once a week. They also added a school support coach to help teachers improve their lesson plans and use more data to track students’ progress.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

. — Lindsey Johnson and Yesenia De La Rosa were taking different approaches to teaching the same English lesson on silent letters as they sat at opposite ends of this first grade classroom in West Elementary School. The shares are even higher in some classes at the district’s West Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Voters in the Centralia school district, it seemed, would again reject a ballot proposal to bring in $9.1 million over two years for their schools by renewing an existing property tax. States and the federal government contribute some money to school budgets, but most are still dependent on local support to survive.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

It will take a combination of summer school and at least the first six weeks of the school year for students to readjust and get back to “normal.” As an elementary school teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

His words remind me that embracing the intrinsic value of the arts is indeed possible and there is potential for great momentum when leadership understands the impact of the arts on society. When I taught in elementary schools, I was greeted by excited, engaged students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Called Fuse RI, it is meant to nurture good ideas by having educators mentor teachers outside their own school districts and serve in leadership roles on administrative teams to help principals and superintendents plan how to use these new models of teaching and learning. There isn’t a strategy coming from D.C.,”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Home to more than 12,000 public school children, the district was the first in Mississippi to defy the governor and voluntarily offer real choice for white and black children to enroll in each other’s schools. Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

The federal government suggests states pay child care providers less than market rate, at the 75th percentile. Or when she enrolled at Lamar University, where she earned her second master’s degree, this time in teacher leadership. She loved her job in the school system. Another lived on government assistance.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

But she’s also balancing basketball practice, prom planning, step team and student government, while worrying about a low grade in Spanish. I’ve had the chance to attend several events at my daughter’s school, and in kindergarten she was already writing about what she would learn if she was going to college,” Sanborn says.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

States have no reason to be surprised by the sharp divide in children’s access to their schools. More than 40 percent of school districts need to update or replace their ventilation systems in at least half of their schools, according to a report by the Government Accounting Office.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2022

But the effort fell through with new leadership, along with a Black History Month assembly that Zaman tried to organize this year. “It A few years ago, when Michal Friesen began teaching third grade at Woodridge Elementary School in Bellevue, Washington, she learned that she was required to teach a unit called “Bellevue Then and Now.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

I went to Isidore Newman School, a private school where tuition and fees surpassed the $20,000-a-year mark and where, in 2006, I was one of seven black students in a graduating class of over 100. School choice also raises larger questions about why the government funds education at all. Jackson Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Since then, Indiana has dedicated some $64 million to On My Way, budgeting $10 million annually for the first two years, 2015-16 and 2016-17, under Pence’s leadership. If our government would just look at the children that we educate today, they are going to lead tomorrow,” McKinney said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But despite the shocking images, Detroit is not much of an outlier when it comes to crumbling schools. A 2020 study by the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s research arm, found 54 percent of public school districts needed to update or replace buildings. The Bible says, ‘Money answereth all things,’” Dacres said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Park Guthrie (upper left), founder of Schools for Climate Action, believes that government inaction on climate change is a form of child neglect and argues that educational organizations have a responsibility to press Congress to do something. In July 2017, he started a campaign called Schools for Climate Action.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve HISD leadership is a disaster…. If ever there was a school board that needs to be taken over and reformed it’s HISD.”

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