Heritage Professional Development Public School 
Studies Weekly
MARCH 10, 2025
In 1854, the American Party gained power in Massachusetts and mandated the reading of the King James Bible in public schools, disbanded Irish militia units, confiscated their weapons and deported nearly 300 poor Irish immigrants. This party claimed to uphold American ideals by only voting for Protestant US-born citizens.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
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. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. Although students seemed to enjoy the school-wide production, Zeng was embarrassed. “It
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 15, 2024
It benefits Latino children to have a Latino provider because they have the same lived experience, same heritage — it’s easier for them to connect to families, to get more family engagement.” She started a daycare on her own after being a paraprofessional at the public school district’s preschool for 19 years.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. Come to school in America and your language gets stomped away.”. For some students, that fills an aching need.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. he Brown v.
Studies Weekly
MAY 28, 2024
A student is considered chronically absent if they miss at least 10% of the total school year, around 18 full days. In 2023, 26% of all public school students in the United States were chronically absent. Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula.
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