ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

There has been a history of fights in the state legislature over public-school funding, voucher programs that support private schools and teacher credentials—with Republicans on one side advocating for more school choice, and Democrats joined by public school groups on the other side calling for support for public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2017

While there is some fear about a new federal school voucher program or private school tax credits, the likelihood is this will not occur through a wholesale dismantling of ESSA. If significant education budget cuts are in fact implemented, it will make the work of educators and school leaders more difficult.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

million — Shortfall this year in the yearly allocation for Jackson Public Schools. Jackson schools are grappling with the loss of about 1,000 students to other districts, private schools, charters and home schooling, along with an increase in the number of students who aged out, dropped out or graduated compared to those entering the system.

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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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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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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. This is when I learned for the first time that after filling out my Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the government determined I had an expected family contribution of over $120,000.

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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

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

JULY 25, 2018

It helped that Pence had support from the business community and from Democratic lawmakers, who got on board only after legislators removed a proposal that would have made the pre-K pilot in effect another entry point into the K-12 private school voucher system.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. And some of her high school classmates had reached the middle class even though they’d dropped out of college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. Greenville took pride in its reputation as a city apart. By 1977, the U.S.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

like in many private schools and Rhode Island, high school seniors had to complete a deep, complex, multidisciplinary capstone requirement in order to graduate? every high school student in Iowa had the opportunity to do a credit-earning, community-based internship before graduation? Help us make it happen?”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

The Restart program relies on the premise that schools know what is best for their students and should be granted flexibility to make changes. The principles of the model are similar to those that govern charter schools. Students at Goldsboro High School in Wayne County Photo: Alex Granados/EducationNC.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

Wright agreed to hold off on applying the new rules, and on Tuesday, May 24, the nine-member Mississippi Board of Education decided in a unanimous vote to side with state leadership not to follow the federal government’s Title IX guidelines. Department of Justice for further action.” I just have to pee, right?”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Kids are growing up really fast because of the internet, and then you get to high school and Covid happens. The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change. the superintendent of North Carolina’s Rowan-Salisbury Schools, would replace William Hite, who led Philadelphia schools for a decade.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Then, in mid-May 2023, a member of the school board told Grimes that it would not be renewing his contract, which was to end in June 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government-funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice. And last week, 51 Republicans voted in Betsy DeVos, the champion of bad policies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

The Office of Educational Technology is without leadership, for instance. And, right or wrong, people look to the department ​for leadership. Study after study have shown that students at private schools using vouchers do no better and sometimes even worse than similar peers who remain in public schools.

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Private School Leadership Government Public School 66

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations. Anything in the government does.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

repeatedly asked DeVos if she believed that all schools that receive public money, including private schools, should meet the same accountability standards. This voucher system has led to a burgeoning industry of mostly for-profit, private schools, also called “free schools.” Tim Kaine, D-Va.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With coronavirus cases soaring and schools facing teacher and technology shortages, DeVos has spent the last few months urging public schools to open, under threat of losing federal money, while at the same time calling for immediate relief for private schools. It’s not that parents don’t want options.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

My childhood included yearly trips abroad and private schools for which my parents paid full freight. One night, my senior year of high school, I found myself on campus late without a ride home. School choice also raises larger questions about why the government funds education at all.

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Private School Charter School Public School High School 85

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

See, whatever you thought about the Harris-Walz ticket’s particular proposals, the Democrats had things to say about education issues that genuinely shape children’s development: affordable early care and learning, access to nutritious school meals, funding for English learners , and more. public schools reeling.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

Related: We need an education commission to take a critical look at private schools. Department of Education’s official announcement of the commission made clear what it was supposed to do: “The Commission has been charged with quickly providing meaningful and actionable recommendations to keep students safe at school.”

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