The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

At some high schools, more than half of the classes were taught by uncertified teachers, including nearly 70 percent of courses at West Bolivar High School in Rosedale, and 61 percent at Heidelberg Junior High School in Heidelberg. That has translated into significant losses at the local level.

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Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Gym said local school districts sometimes reject foster youth — if the foster care facilities let them attempt to enroll at all — so they are “being educated in the residential facility itself, which is not really equipped nor is it certified to really be a quality educational institution.” Another foster student, M.S.,

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 21, 2024

From its formation in 1950, the NAACP’s Boston public school subcommittee sought to demonstrate the segregated nature of the city’s schools. Batson and her subcommittee faced deep opposition over whether segregation even existed in Boston’s public schools. “We Baston said yes, and her life “changed profoundly.”

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Junior High High School Public School Elementary School 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2017

Sumner Hill Junior High is the district’s 9th-grade school. Educators in Clinton say having grade-based schools has helped the district remain integrated. In 2016, half of all black students in Mississippi attended school in a district rated D or F; 86 percent of the students in those districts were black.

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Junior High Economics Public School High School 81

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

At the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, 53 percent of public schools reported being understaffed, according to the Institute of Educational Sciences. While teacher shortages often get the most attention, shortages among non-teaching staff also disrupt the smooth running of schools.

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K-12 Junior High High School Psychology 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Public schools seem like a logical place to teach when and how to intervene, since most people attend them at some point, but actually getting the classes into schools has not been easy. Fuhrman is a junior high vice principal; he said three kids at his school attempted suicide and required medical treatment this year.

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Education K-12 High School Advocacy 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

They lived in various apartments in the Bronx, where Hernandez excelled in school. She remembers being named valedictorian of her junior high, and as a result winning a scholarship to St. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed). She became the family translator.

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Economics Junior High Advocacy Critical Thinking 123

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Still, he was held back twice, in fifth grade and again in junior high. “It A 2018 analysis found that roughly half of New Orleans public-school students were retained at least one year. It just made me want to drop out, I ain’t lying,” he said. Related: Held back, but not helped.

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High School Middle School Junior High History 124

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. Now the fight is less about how public schools can achieve excellence, and more about how they can survive. “In Related: LA’s school counselors strike back.

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Charter School Junior High Political Science Elementary School 107

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

In January, Rosa Bermudez filled out her “Power Plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology, one of her early assignments from Stansbury Elementary School. The work was among her first in English, and in an American public school. public schools, experts from MPI wrote in a September policy brief.

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Junior High Elementary School Human Rights Public School 125