The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Some school leaders have called the pace of the overhaul insane. Related: Widen your perspective.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In this interview with EdSurge, Black discusses Dangerous Learning, how challenges to traditional public school education enforce rather than dissolve political divisions, and the unexpected successes hidden in the sad history of anti-literacy. But religious ethics are not enough to create a public school system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. Another fan of the program, Linda Mauriello, runs the transition and work-based learning program at Boonton Public Schools in northern New Jersey.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

That research has been instrumental in persuading lawmakers to increase funding to help schools accommodate students with disabilities, in some cases hiring extra special education teachers for every class. Roughly 15 percen t of U.S. Advocates for children with disabilities disputed the findings.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Public school enrollment there fell by 7.6

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

In Wisconsin, school choice has existed for decades, with expansive options that include vouchers for private schools, public charter schools and traditional public schools. And public support for school choice rests above satisfaction with the states public school system in some polling data.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret. The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level. Perez, known as Ms.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It is further understood that use of a personal device is restricted to those activities as required or related to the student''s program of study and any use otherwise may be subject to disciplinary action including loss of device use privileges.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Many schools serving Native American students have been working to strengthen connections with families, who often struggle with higher rates of illness and poverty. Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government back in the past,” she said. “We

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

Schools, districts and community organizations that serve the most marginalized and underresourced students should collaborate to prioritize a forward-thinking and responsible approach to incorporating new digital literacies and skills into the educational curriculum and structure of public school learning.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Public schools reported having six teacher vacancies on average in August, based on responses to the School Pulse Panel by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

Yet, for far too long, students have been left out of decision-making conversations, even though our voices are needed more than ever, and our perspectives are vital for fostering inclusive and effective governance. But running for a school board as a young person is not an easy task. You face a lot of questions: Are you qualified?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out. It is a scramble, he says, and its a painful one.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Meanwhile, at least five of its neighboring school districts have more students enrolled compared to five years ago, with increases up to nearly 14 percent. The largest enrollment growth since the start of the pandemic came from Idea Public Schools, a charter district in Texas, that reports an eye-popping 55 percent increase since 2019-20.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

In Portland, Oregon, the school district is mapping out job cuts by campus to offset a looming $30 million budget deficit. Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

It updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the law that requires state and local governments to supply equal opportunity — including in services like public schools, community colleges and public universities — for people with disabilities. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco opened its gymnasium to homeless students and their families as part of its Stay Over Program in 2022. It is one example of the many community services that a majority of public schools are now providing, according to a federal survey.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When the University of Pennsylvania said it would pay $10 million a year for 10 years to address environmental hazards in Philadelphia’s public schools, Gerald Campano’s reaction was complicated. “Of In Philadelphia, the effects of underfunding public schools are especially evident. It is also not the end of this fight.”

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

The program didn’t want to spend to bring fiber along the same path to tribal schools and libraries and the local school district, says John Chadwick, the digital equity coordinator for the New Mexico Department of Education. Without it, students can struggle to turn in or even access school assignments. No internet.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

Imagine that you are a policymaker who is generally anti-government, anti-union, and pro-privatization. Public schools conflict with all of those, don’t they? Citizens and communities generally like and strongly support their schools. So you’ve got a challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” Related: Students have their own demands for school reopening.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Are the USN&WR rankings designed to hold schools accountable for their performance?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Despite mounting evidence that schools are not turning out to be major incubators or vectors of Covid-19 transmission, New York City shut down its public school system in November. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Even before the pandemic, STEM achievement gaps in K-12 schools were significant.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

America’s public schools have enormous energy, infrastructure and transportation needs, which make them an essential component of any plan to improve the nation’s overall infrastructure. Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Metro Nashville Schools invested alongside the Save The Music Foundation to ensure that high schools across the district provide instruction and classroom space for music technology, production and songwriting. Prop 28 also provides extra funding to schools in historically under-resourced communities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

House of Representatives to fund the federal government through September 2018. Related: Can putting the least-experienced teachers in the highest-risk schools ever result in success? We also will invest in producing great school leaders who can support teachers and meet the unique needs of all children.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Board of Education, rejecting legal racial segregation of public schools. They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort. No school governance model is predominant. It’s also clear that the laws governing school improvement must be revisited and strengthened.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The telemedicine program was launched in fall 2021 by Guilford County Public Schools, North Carolina’s third largest school district, as a way to combat chronic absenteeism. The number of students missing 10 or more days of school soared in the district – and nationally – during the pandemic, and remains high in many places.

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Elementary School Public School Government Research 131

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

And, they began outlining the governance and technical work that will help them address the use cases. Gurnee School District 56 , San Diego Office of Education , Stephenville Independent School District , Uinta County School District #1, and Vancouver Public Schools are the core districts moving this work forward.

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Charter School Public School Government Education 119

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

When states choose to operate a program that involves public (or publicly governed) financing of private service providers, can the state choose to exclude religious providers? That is, publicly financed, government-administered voucher programs that include religious schools are permissible under the U.S. Constitution.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But the latest news is that the government is investing significant money to figure out how to ensure that the new tools actually advance national education goals like increasing equity and supporting overworked teachers. The most dramatic example came in May, when Chegg’s falling stock price was blamed on chatbots.

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