The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

. — The previous few months had witnessed a handful of small endings, and now, with the school year drawing to a close, these events were piling up quickly. In February, hundreds had gathered in the school gymnasium for the final basketball games in Chelsea High School history. Michael Dougherty/VTDigger.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. Other student entrepreneurs have applied their hard-earned wisdom to improving virtual school, too. Credit: eLearn.fyi.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school’s modern dance troupe and taking art classes. This story also appeared in The Associated Press Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But in other regions of the country, districts are grappling with a need for air conditioning that didn’t exist when school buildings were first constructed. Nationwide, an estimated 41 percent of districts need to update or replace HVAC systems in at least half of their schools, according to a 2020 report from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Aya Hamza’s academic and extracurricular record at Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami should have made her path to college relatively effortless. Aya Hamza, a high school senior, with her father. Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami, which has nine college counselors for 3,000 students. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. “And the Department of Justice bought into that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

Attend student government meetings. A former social studies teacher at the city’s public boarding high school, Brady-Howard now serves as chair of Indigenous Studies at Outer Coast, where students study Alaska Native literature, beading and the Tlingit language. Cook breakfast for a classmate celebrating a birthday.

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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. government also acknowledges.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As the public school system has teetered, already many parents across the country have turned to religious or private schools , or created smaller learning pods, hired private tutors or are considering play and learning programs that in some cases can cost close to $3,000 a month.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. Schools are supposed to log instances of paddling within their walls, which districts are then supposed to compile.

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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. 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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government. Those could include major, geography or high school. These can all prove to be factors in certain schools that require a balancing act,” O’Connor said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Forest Hill High School is a picture of strength and prosperity, but it received an “F” rating on its most recent state evaluation, as did almost a third of the schools in the Jackson school district. From the outside, Forest Hill High School is a picture of strength and prosperity. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Home of Hope, funded by private donations and fundraising events, spends more than $4,800 a month per family in its program. Offering high-quality child care alone is expensive.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 26, 2017

What Durflinger describes is frequently a difficult task and it’s not altogether clear that we’re navigating an appropriate balance between school concerns and students’ constitutional rights, particularly when our youth express themselves off campus. The Wisconsin student who tweeted “eat sh-t” to the state high school athletic association.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All through high school, my counselor assured me that if I worked hard I would be able to win enough scholarships to cover the cost of college. Despite all my hard work in high school, I felt like I had failed. Despite my complete dedication to school, it looked like I wouldn’t be attending college. So work I did.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She actually liked the country song. Plus, she had little to lose.

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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. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Voicing the concerns of charter-school proponents after protesting at a Warren rally in Atlanta last month, parent-activist Sarah Carpenter pointed out during a meeting that followed the protest that Warren had sent one of her children to private school. Wise governments reward families who strive to propel their children.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Beard is black and had two kids go through Longview schools. It was reprinted with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Still, society’s dominant narrative is one of poor blacks whom government and other institutions must help to overcome their situation, which is in large part inextricable from the lack of equity and access that still plagues America’s minority communities. Until we come to this point, our schools and our society will remain inequitable.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Students who idolize athletes like Kaepernick may also mimic him at school and sit during the pledge of allegiance in protest. school system have many reasons to take a seat. Every morning in most public and private schools, students recite the Pledge of Allegiance, although schools can’t legally force them to do it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Many working-class families in this manufacturing city across the Wabash River from Purdue University cannot afford to send their children to private pre-kindergarten, nor can they rely on government-funded programs — like Head Start and subsidized childcare — which serve a fraction of eligible children.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases. That means developing a skill that is hard to come by for many students of government and politics: namely, seeing that strong arguments exist on both sides of controversial issues.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

District administrators are committed, as is the school board, and even the county government has embarked on an equity mission for the broader community. Uriburu said this is the first time the Black and Latino communities have teamed up to advocate for better schools, and they are very clear about their right to make demands.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

That’s because all the kids in this diverse suburb just northwest of Jackson attend the same school for kindergarten and first grade, then move on to the second- and third-grade school and continue together on through high school. There is no poor school or wealthy school … we are all together from the very beginning.”.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Halley Potter, who studies potential policy solutions for addressing educational inequality, is a fellow at The Century Foundation, a left-leaning think tank based in New York, and a member of the governing board of the National Coalition of Diverse Charter Schools. He blames himself, in part, for feeding into that belief.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The entire system — the only public school system in America made up almost entirely of charter schools — had a wake-up call in 2010, when the Southern Poverty Law Center sued the Louisiana Department of Education over New Orleans charter schools’ treatment of students with disabilities. There aren’t other options,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2020

Protesters demands for an end to systemic racism must include demands for an end to state support of private schools that, by gobbling up scarce financial resources, deprive Black and Brown children of a quality public education and deprive all children the benefits of diversity and inclusion. Supreme Court ruled in Espinoza v.

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