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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. has fully acknowledged its long history of using education as a weapon against tribes. There was nothing like this.

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Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

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In 2018, for the first time in district history, a majority of Sioux City’s 14,976 students, about 52 percent, were people of color. No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Her mother is an English tutor working for the school district and her father works at Tyson.

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A Conversation About School Choice

Cult of Pedagogy

Cara Fitzpatrick When I read this book, I learned some fascinating and frankly ugly things about the history of school choice in the U.S. There’s also this rise of ESAs (education savings accounts) where you could pay for online classes or tutoring or tuition. It’s very flexible. And it’s not even a subtle one.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. She graduated valedictorian of her class. She had only superficial familiarity with state and U.S. public schools.

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Education nominee McMahon says she supports calls to dismantle the agency but that funding wouldn’t be affected

The Hechinger Report

Day and Black History Month should be permitted, after Murphy noted that U.S. Department of Defense schools would no longer celebrate Black History Month in response to Trumps order. history, and that its up to states, not the Department of Education, to establish curriculum. Thats pretty chilling, Murphy said.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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