The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. This cozy suburb just outside of Boston is home to an idyllic New England downtown and schools that are good enough to draw young families in droves. Michael Tracy, principal of Winthrop Elementary School, on student-led conferences.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2021

And middle schools often spend less time on social and emotional learning than elementary schools , sometimes seeing it as a distraction from academics. And at a time when their circadian rhythms are shifting to later sleep and wake times, sixth graders often have to start school earlier than they did in elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2024

Guy-Perkins, a small school district in central Arkansas with just over 300 students , typically saw three to four applicants depending on the position. This year, the district received 15 applications for a single teaching position at the elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Then, from the side of the school, the “big kids” came running, spilling from their modular middle school in headphones and hoodies to line up behind the younger children. Meanwhile, secondary school enrollment numbers were shrinking, while elementary enrollments were exploding, due to the postwar baby boom.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Their photos this week are showing a mix of children from all different ethnic backgrounds, no easy task to achieve in New York City, where close to half the elementary schools are 90 percent black and Hispanic. Yet I also have friends who’ve chosen more integrated neighborhoods and schools for their kids.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

“So the tax base went to the city school district, and it made obstacles for the county even greater as they had even less to work with.”. That same year, Starkville Academy, a private school called a segregation academy by some in the area, took in its first students, most of them white. Hope and faith. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. The lottery losers attended a variety of other schools, from traditional public schools to private schools to other charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Massachusetts has an innovation school law that Dickinson thought laid out a clear path to her dream, only she couldn’t find a school district to partner with. Instead, she opened a small private school in Winchester, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston and one of the state’s wealthiest communities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Those states saw private-school enrollment grow by over 100,000 students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

These boys racked up more arrests and days behind bars when more of their elementary school classmates left. Their criminal activity later in adulthood was more stable regardless of how many peers left for lottery schools. The researchers only looked at how public school lotteries affected criminal activity.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

When Pearl launched, students were initially zoned for elementary school according to their neighborhood. Children living on the north side of town attended an elementary school that had received a blue-ribbon designation from the U.S. That’s no small feat, as housing and schooling are closely tied,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Related: Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your home that’s burned, it’s everyone’s’ In Milwaukee, where only about one-fourth of public school classrooms have air conditioning, the district took a similar approach this year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

In Wilder Elementary School, students not only pick which subjects they want to learn, but they can also spurn their desks and work on the floor if they want. I took a beating for that,” Dillon admitted, but added it was the right choice because the school was doing a poor job meeting the needs of students. Photo: Wayne D’Orio.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2016

million — Shortfall this year in the yearly allocation for Jackson Public Schools. Jackson schools are grappling with the loss of about 1,000 students to other districts, private schools, charters and home schooling, along with an increase in the number of students who aged out, dropped out or graduated compared to those entering the system.

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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 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

A week before the case was set to go to court, the district agreed to settle and pay for Nelson to finish up his high school career at a private school 20 miles away for students with learning disabilities. To Nelson’s delight, once he started there, his grades dropped as he was finally challenged in school. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

But what makes this center unique is that it is serves Bushwick, a high-poverty community in which public elementary schools don’t do well on state and city tests. “We She has taught in private schools on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, two of New York City’s most affluent areas.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The film is based on the real-life story of teacher Sergio Juárez Correa and his students at one of the worst-performing elementary schools in Mexico, located on the border with Texas and just a stone’s throw across the Rio Grande from SpaceX in Brownsville.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Schools should have mascots and sports teams and students should represent those colors. But particularly for elementary school students, it’s much more important that students are as comfortable as possible while learning. For trans students and non-binary students, dress codes are just another form of restriction.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Miami Elementary School kindergarten teacher Ashleigh McCord reads to students during pre-K camp. The pilot program was modeled on the state’s expansive K-12 voucher system, which pays the tuition of low-income families who opt into private schools. Photo: Patrick Wall for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In the elementary school, art classes were cut. The middle school had to downsize its band program. Our community is so school-centered that it was really important that we stay.”. In Whitmore Lake, it was a constant struggle to keep the district’s financial troubles from touching the classroom, district officials say.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Private schools, although an increasing threat to public education, are still a relatively small slice of the educational system. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. College is free.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. The school, nestled on a hill in a relatively affluent residential neighborhood, was rezoned a decade ago to draw in students from the city’s public housing.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County.

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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

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 16, 2018

Parents say the instruction at Pre-K 4 SA is as good as any they’ve seen at private schools. If Pre-K 4 SA hadn’t been available, said Denise Ojeda, “I would not have been able to send my son to a school like this.” Ten percent of Pre-K 4 SA spots are reserved for tuition-paying families.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

We support our students from the beginning of elementary school in what it means to have families be college ready.”. He oversees a series of workshops targeting parents. One explores the ACT Test. Another delves into the FAFSA and what parents can do to help their children apply for federal financial aid.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. “But that shouldn’t necessarily be the model that we’re all rushing out to replicate throughout our education system, because I can point to examples that I’ve seen time and again where personalized learning isn’t working.”.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s.

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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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