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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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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As college costs increase, more families are saving for it

The Hechinger Report

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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A Conversation About School Choice

Cult of Pedagogy

There’s also this rise of ESAs (education savings accounts) where you could pay for online classes or tutoring or tuition. Because I’ve always understood school choice as “this is government money that will follow the student to whatever they go to.” It’s very flexible. And that is one of the natural consequences of competition.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations.

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How could Project 2025 change education?

The Hechinger Report

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. Samuels Special education Project 2025 says that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which provides $14.2

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Education nominee McMahon says she supports calls to dismantle the agency but that funding wouldn’t be affected

The Hechinger Report

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. The federal government is barred by law from setting local curriculum, as Republican Sen. Fund education freedom, not government-run systems.

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