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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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006. It’s a traditionally oral language, and speakers frown on any written form.

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

Ashtabula regularly has more than a dozen tutors available, and can increase the number depending on need, said Carol Jones, coordinator of academic services. Students receive academic advising and can visit the writing center, sign up for tutoring or attend supplemental instruction.

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As college costs increase, more families are saving for it

The Hechinger Report

The Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, wants lawmakers to take additional steps: changing the rules for 529 plans to allow families more school choice at the K-12 and help them pay for a bevy of other options.

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STUDENT VOICE: The first in my family to go to college, thanks to a scholarship — and a borrowed van

The Hechinger Report

I found ways of helping others in my community, volunteering with church, and playing the role of tutor, translator and advocate for students who had experiences similar to mine. Throughout my schooling, I always worked hard and aimed high — traits I see in many immigrant families. Keep up the good work!

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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. Places like the Heritage Foundation have literally published papers saying, you know, we should use culture war issues to win legislatively on choice, that we should attack public education.

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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. Both of the elder Valladolids are from Mexico.

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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.