The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If During its first year, the charter school’s student body was 70 percent white; enrollment in the local public schools was 4 percent white. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

These concerns, coupled with crowding in primary schools — the result of an influx of new immigrants — led to the creation, starting around 1910, of standalone “junior high schools” for seventh through ninth graders. But it quickly became clear that the junior highs weren’t living up to their promise.

Middle School 131

Middle School Junior High Elementary School High School 131

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later. Photo: Jackie Mader.

Junior High 75

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

When Taylor graduated from Greenville High School in 1989, there were still enough white students, barely, to fill the mandated balance for positions of responsibility. When he returned from college in 1993 to work as a history teacher in the district, he wondered where all the white students had gone. Right here in River City.

Middle School 111

Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111