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To Create Safer Spaces for Students, Teachers of Color Must Reckon With Our Settler Identity

ED Surge

of public school educators are of Asian descent. As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community. They appreciated seeing another Asian educator receive national recognition in a profession where only 2.1%

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OPINION: Should plaintiffs in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about school choice be careful what they wish for?

The Hechinger Report

For the perspective of the Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher, click here. When states choose to operate a program that involves public (or publicly governed) financing of private service providers, can the state choose to exclude religious providers? The Hechinger Report asked several experts to weigh in.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

The Hechinger Report

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. They are too poor — their parents want them to work,’’ Ballani said, while showing a visitor in and out of dusty classrooms at his school, GSSS Damodora, where students dressed in powder-blue uniforms sat on the floor awaiting instruction.

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Creating Impact and Art Through Partnerships

Digital Promise

The newly formed Philadelphia Education Innovation Cluster is aiming to infuse the city’s namesake fraternal spirit into their regional education ecosystem, a network that includes community centers, art organizations, public television, Philadelphia Public Schools (representing 130,000 students and 300 schools), and more.

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Teacher licensing rules are one reason small schools don’t have enough teachers

The Hechinger Report

Linda Reksten, R-Polson, noted that during her years as a public school superintendent, it sometimes took the state six weeks just to process an applicant’s fingerprints. Anderson has worked at Greenfield School for nearly a decade. The school was going to take a hit because of something that was out of our control.”

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language.