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

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

The Hechinger Report

Families can spend their ESAs on almost any education-related expenses, such as private school tuition, tutoring and homeschool supplies. Already, Arizona has registered more than 4,000 vendors for ESAs — including retailers, tutors and even traditional school districts — a jump of 35 percent over last year.

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

The Hechinger Report

No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Even with plentiful low-skill jobs and with some immigrants running small businesses or finding better paid jobs as translators or tutors, poverty is still a reality among recent arrivals. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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A Conversation About School Choice

Cult of Pedagogy

There’s also this rise of ESAs (education savings accounts) where you could pay for online classes or tutoring or tuition. It’s still just not even close to what the traditional public schools go through. It’s very flexible. And so when you have students leave and try something else, the dollars often follow them.

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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. A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools. She graduated valedictorian of her class. public schools.

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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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