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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

So Belue started a new policy during the 1972-73 school year: students would have to elect one white student and one black student at large to student government, as well as to the homecoming court. It’s better to learn when you’re in an uncomfortable environment,” said Zada Perry, a ninth-grader at Sumner Hill Junior High.

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Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them

The Hechinger Report

And government oversight is lacking. She spent junior high and most of her freshman year at a mid-sized public school, earning A’s and B’s in algebra, her favorite class, and playing on the volleyball team. But she was hoping that her cousins would foster her, and she could attend the high school near them.

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

The Hechinger Report

In mid-May, school officials hosted a Zoom version of a King tradition — the class roll call. Along with her determination to re-invent herself, she set lofty academic goals: She wanted to become president of Cohen’s student government and be named class valedictorian with a 4.0 Credit: Kathleen Flynn for The Hechinger Report.

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The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives  

The Hechinger Report

In 2019, the president of the IFF called public schools “the most virulent form of socialism (and indoctrination thereto) in America today,” adding, “I don’t think government should be in the education business.”) I got a superintendency without having to go through the traditional process of doing it.”

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Switching sides in the teacher wars

The Hechinger Report

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. She made it as an eighth-grader at Tulsa’s Nimitz Junior High School for a project researching career options. Four union members running for state government won their primaries last year.