The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, wants lawmakers to take additional steps: changing the rules for 529 plans to allow families more school choice at the K-12 and help them pay for a bevy of other options. For one, 529 plans can be costly for federal and state governments, according to the Pew report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. About 65 percent of India’s students attend similar government schools, many with dismal outcomes. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. Your kids will have a better life if they are educated. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

Billionaire dark money funded the conservative infrastructure that initiated attacks on critical race theory and DEI at all levels of education led by the Heritage Foundation. Gregory Wickenkamp , educator and Iowa City event host A few years ago I was pushed out of K-12 teaching when politicians scapegoated my teaching practice.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Education is a provincial responsibility in Canada and is highly centralized by the Alberta government. The curriculum is developed and coordinated by government officials and staff, but the writing is done largely by committees of practicing teachers according to agreed-upon directives (a broad curriculum revision is currently underway now).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Similar to many second-generation Chinese living in America, it’s been difficult for me to reconnect with my heritage. It is intended to be a trip that helps us find our roots and spurs us to treasure our heritage and culture. I’ve neglected my Chinese heritage and I will work to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school, located in the nearby 7 th Ward, had opened its doors to kids in pre-K through second grade the year before. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation also partners with Plessy, and for three years has used a community grant to fund strings instruction for students under violinist and violist Amelia Clingman.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. government orders to go to an internment camp, as they were called then, saying it was unconstitutional.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

12, where students learn in both English and Spanish, the process can be both bureaucratic and baffling. States and the federal government could, and should, incentivize districts to open programs where there is the most need, and discourage programs targeted mostly at English speakers. I just wish it were more accessible,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

About 644,000 Native students attend the nation’s K-12 system, with the vast majority enrolled in public schools, according to the National Congress of American Indians. Like other educators, Gorneau emphasized that critical race theory is not being taught in South Dakota schools at the K-12 level.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Review the list to find seasonal social studies lessons, primary source activities, and biographies for K-12 classrooms. National Hispanic Heritage Month (September & October) Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, from September 15 – October 15. Get the lessons. Get the lessons. Get the lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Credit: Eric Gay/ Associated Press Districts had until November 12, less than a month, to respond. I was beyond shocked that somebody from our state government was asking what books were available in our school libraries. This alarmed librarians. I was actually at home. My superintendent forwarded it to me. I just felt a cold chill.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Public colleges couldn’t admit students without immigration documents and, even though, under federal law, K-12 schools are required to serve students regardless of citizenship status, the Alabama legislation also called for school districts to collect information on their students’ citizenship status. But even though most are U.S.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

PEN America’s report does not reflect the banning of unique titles, so if a dozen school districts all banned the same book, it would count as 12 bans, a PEN representative explained. Books with LGBTQ+ or racial themes or characters from marginalized groups also continue to be targeted.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations. Typing and tech? Nonexistent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

There were bombings that people “just had to get used to” as the conflict between the government and ISIS spread. Their “Heritage Night” drew 100 students and family members; one by one, two dozen students stood up to tell one of their memories of home. Read more about K-12. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Lillian : When I read about cutting the 21st Century Learning Program cuts I was reminded of this tiny K-12 school on an American Indian Reservation in Montana that I visited last winter. Is the federal government going to start direct-funding charter schools? But what does that mean? Jackie : Ooh interesting.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2024

The conservative Heritage Foundation is the primary force behind the sprawling blueprint, which is separate from the much less detailed Republican National Committee 2024 platform , though they share some common themes. Early childhood advocates have been wary of such proposals because they tie child care access to a specific job.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But she promised to work with Congress to do so acknowledging some limits on the presidents authority as Trump seeks to remake the government through executive orders. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. The federal government is barred by law from setting local curriculum, as Republican Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For instance, conservatives are eager to get the government involved in biological screenings to determine if kids have the “correct” genitalia for peeing in a particular bathroom or playing on a particular sports team. Worse yet, some of conservatives’ K–12 ideas are at war with themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Eighth-grader Zakaria Ali, right, a student of Somali heritage, talks about how Muslims lose their freedom when Americans equate Islam with terror, as eighth-grader Hadil Ramadan, left, listens. The federal government has resettled about 3 million refugees since Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, according to the Pew Research Center.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word as “a political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite,” and “the movement organized around this philosophy.” The show is clearly meeting the demand of a large swath of America, but populism it ain’t. Last week, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are persistent critics of public K-12 schools and higher education and want to overhaul many aspects of how the institutions operate. Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As the pandemic ravaged already beleaguered centers across the country, the federal government stepped in with $24 billion in aid. And once Joe Biden arrived in the White House, it seemed that the government might go even farther by making pandemic relief aid permanent. But in the United States, that wasn’t to be.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2025

Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. Trump has pledged to rapidly reshape the federal government using executive orders. The impact of those executive orders will depend in part on how the federal government enforces them and in part on how state and local leaders and advocates respond. The 1982 U.S.

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