The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said. She held it together all day at school and then would explode.” Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. Board members began pushing to renovate some of the old school buildings in the late 90s. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools. “If

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

It helped that Pence had support from the business community and from Democratic lawmakers, who got on board only after legislators removed a proposal that would have made the pre-K pilot in effect another entry point into the K-12 private school voucher system. Photo: Mareesa Nicosia for The Hechinger Report.

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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. She tutored other kids from public housing. Some couldn’t read at all. Both Williams and Sci Academy thrived during her time there.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Baray, a former teacher and principal in the Austin schools, has also taught at Texas State University, where she conducted extensive research on educational leadership, community involvement, and school improvement. Parents say the instruction at Pre-K 4 SA is as good as any they’ve seen at private schools.

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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

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

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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Oral History History High School Public School 117

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Colorful metal posts emblazoned with a list of the school’s values mark the entrance of I.T. Montgomery, an elementary school in Mound Bayou, Mississippi: Respectful. State leadership is idly watching as Mississippi’s health care services are strained and exhausted,” wrote Mississippi Congressman Rep. Responsible.

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High School Private School Elementary School Public School 126

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. Others worried that the English learners would drag down test scores and hurt their school district’s reputation.

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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. The school had 10 principals in as many years. She graduated valedictorian of her class.

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Education Elementary School Government K-12 105

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

My childhood included yearly trips abroad and private schools for which my parents paid full freight. One night, my senior year of high school, I found myself on campus late without a ride home. Related: What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge ? Those facts often put me in awkward situations.

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