The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. Early decision is typically offered by more selective institutions and locks in applicants who are accepted, even before they see how much financial aid they’ll get.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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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. Photo: Nicole Lewis. One county, two districts worlds apart.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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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

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. My own organization has its own structures and traditions that I have to sweep away,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Over the years Plessy’s namesake school has managed to achieve more diversity than most in New Orleans, but is now struggling to retain upper middle class, white families, according to Ben McLeish, the president of Plessy’s governing board. New Orleans has always been a deeply divided school system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations.

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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

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. On June 30, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Restrictions on some designs, shorts, dyed hair and other asinine rules governing what students can wear give educators permission to harass, discriminate and pull students out of class when they slip up. They also normalize cisgender and traditional roles and views. They help distinguish one school from another — a kind of branding.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

I’m going to keep her at her private school. One of the teachers at his school passed away suddenly over winter break. In northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville Public Schools families and staff enjoyed a glimpse of normalcy this spring. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

The appeal of this idea can be backed up with data — a 2023 poll asked this question: School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs. It’s certainly true for charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The schools too often operate like educational black holes, failing to help kids earn relevant credits. Students complain of being kept on campus when they could be attending neighborhood schools. And government oversight is lacking. Oliver Francis, of Philadelphia, was placed in foster care because he was truant.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Sweatshirts emblazoned with the 43 college choices that students would announce during the beloved pep-rally tradition known as “signing day” remained folded neatly beneath chairs. The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. And some of her high school classmates had reached the middle class even though they’d dropped out of college. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school. Match has worked with school districts in Chicago and Lawrence, Massachusetts to replicate its tutoring model, while partnering informally with other charter networks to build tutoring programs. Elsewhere in the U.S.,

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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

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. Related: San Antonio is hoping career-themed schools can alleviate a worker shortage.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order in April 2022 restricting how race and equity can be taught in the classroom, Tilsen-Brave Heart decided to enroll her daughter at Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, a newly opened private school in Rapid City. It’s knowledge about culture and history and traditions in language.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Batchelor and another former school board member, Bret Gist, recalled hearing from longtime residents who were enrolling their children in private schools or leaving Russellville because they didn’t want their kids to be “the minority.” But a soccer program Grimes started has received perhaps the biggest response.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Trump promoted the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act as a means to “rescue” students “trapped in failing government schools.” In particular, the NCD has found that special-education vouchers have led to the creation of schools that only serve students with disabilities.

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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. as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2017

Trump’s philosophy seems to be, “If you break it, they will come to private and charter schools” — “it” in this scenario being the traditional public school system. billion voucher expansion to help subsidize public school students who want to attend private schools. The reductions would pay for a $1.4

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Charter School Private School Tradition Public School 66

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For fellow senior Raoul Sandoval, similar warnings came from family members who lived and worked in the school’s Lower West Side, Pilsen neighborhood. Knowing that he had always excelled academically, they urged him to apply for a scholarship to a private school instead. All the traditional method does is sort students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

They don’t want the federal government showing up at their door.”. But some colleges and universities — in need of enrollment at a time when the number of high school graduates is relatively flat — are also responding to donors willing to give them money to pay for undocumented students. How do I attract more students?

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Government Private School High School Tradition 84

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

My coping mechanism to respond to some of the uncertainty in the larger system is appealing to government or quasi government agencies as well as personal physicians that can help me just know that I’m doing the right thing. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. I just don’t.

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Oral History History High School Public School 90

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

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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Private School Heritage K-12 Tutoring 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. The strikes are thus partly about reclaiming a sense of professional pride and middle-class stature.

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K-12 History Public School Tutoring 88

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Kennedy believed that when he introduced the concept of affirmative action in 1961 in the context of government contracts. Related: A private school resets its tuition. It turns out that other people of varying backgrounds have much to offer a democracy. President John F.

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Economics Private School History Government 57

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.

Teaching 52

Teaching Civics American History Library 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Valles was among the enthusiastic would-be innovators and entrepreneurs I met at least week’s Harvard Kennedy School conference, Emerging School Models: Moving From Alternative to Mainstream. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference.

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Advocacy Public School Charter School Tradition 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. Scenario #1: DeVos moves quickly to implement President-Elect Trump’s plan to use $20 billion of federal funds for block grants to states to support vouchers for poor children to attend private schools.

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Charter School Private School Tradition Public School 111