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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. In 1977, the federal government sued Clinton to force it to rejoin the Hinds County district, arguing that its secession had impeded broader integration efforts.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Board of Education decision.

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The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

The Hechinger Report

High School in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. What would it have been like without Katrina?’”.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. When Taylor graduated from Greenville High School in 1989, there were still enough white students, barely, to fill the mandated balance for positions of responsibility. Sacrificing Coleman High School.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

A spokesperson for the Laramie County School District #1 could only find records of two students who died by suicide at East High school while Brown was enrolled there.). Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach.

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