The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it. Kast says she would love to enroll him at Old Dominion, but the school does not have a special-education program. Most private schools in the state don’t. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Montessori Method was developed by Maria Montessori, Italy’s first female physician, who opened her first school in 1907. Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. But in order to learn this important skill, children must practice day in and day out.

Charter School 111

Charter School Private School Critical Thinking Leadership 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

While the number of schools using the method isn’t tallied anywhere, the number of tests taken could serve as a loose proxy for interest in it. Jon Burt, who heads Gallup’s K-12 education consulting arm, said that each year over 1 million students in the U.S. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools?

Elementary School 96

Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It says , “As originally implemented, the program offered students who attended or who were assigned to attend failing public schools the option to choose a higher performing public school or a participating private school.” Offered an option — that’s correct. Opportunity — that’s not always correct.

Private School 82

Private School Public School Leadership Economics 82

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood. It is designed to expose students to organizational skills, peer support and leadership activities. Most of the students at Ridgeview live in modest apartment complexes a few miles away.

Middle School 111

Middle School Leadership Charter School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Voicing the concerns of charter-school proponents after protesting at a Warren rally in Atlanta last month, parent-activist Sarah Carpenter pointed out during a meeting that followed the protest that Warren had sent one of her children to private school.

Charter School 95

Charter School Tradition Public School Private School 95

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

million — Shortfall this year in the yearly allocation for Jackson Public Schools. Jackson schools are grappling with the loss of about 1,000 students to other districts, private schools, charters and home schooling, along with an increase in the number of students who aged out, dropped out or graduated compared to those entering the system.

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Charter School Public School Social Justice High School 110

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2017

While there is some fear about a new federal school voucher program or private school tax credits, the likelihood is this will not occur through a wholesale dismantling of ESSA. If significant education budget cuts are in fact implemented, it will make the work of educators and school leaders more difficult.

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Education Private School Professional Development Leadership 86

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

Junior High 75

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

Charter School 100

Charter School Leadership Library Private School 100

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Board members began pushing to renovate some of the old school buildings in the late 90s. Since the integration order, white families — who still made up the majority of Longview’s population — had left the school district in droves for private schools, and white voters actively resisted paying to renovate the district’s schools.

Private School 73

Private School Elementary School Government Charter School 73

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” Those of us who stayed in the public schools were satisfied that everything was working.”. Black and white students shared school leadership positions and leads in the class plays. By 1977, the U.S.

Middle School 111

Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Alma White, for whom the school was named, was a notorious racist and xenophobe with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. For nearly 50 years, the small private school has been led by the Grosses, a white family whose mission was to educate K-12 students from a Christian worldview. Now students take an active role.

Private School 125

Private School K-12 Economics Public School 125

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school.

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Private School High School Public School Charter School 143

ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Knowing that, what did the companies tell us about how educators are represented in the ranks of edtech leadership? Almost all of the participating companies reported at least a couple former educators in high-level leadership positions. The change is a drastic one for the company, founded 12 years ago. They’re engineers.

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EdTech K-12 Leadership Teaching 106

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Revere’s school district is one of the leaders in Massachusetts in advancing student-centered learning, which is surprising on multiple levels. It’s an approach associated with affluent private schools — free from state curricula and testing mandates. He was the only minority in a leadership role at Revere High, for instance.

Teaching 112

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Instead, the school is planning to work with North Carolina State University’s Caldwell Fellows to host a summer school program for its students, according to Principal Larry Savage. Related: This country spends billions on private schools — and has a terrible learning gap between poor and wealthy. “We

Elementary School 99

Elementary School Charter School K-12 High School 99

The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

Wright agreed to hold off on applying the new rules, and on Tuesday, May 24, the nine-member Mississippi Board of Education decided in a unanimous vote to side with state leadership not to follow the federal government’s Title IX guidelines. So ignorance is a big part of this,” he said. I just have to pee, right?”

Leadership 53

Leadership Government Museum Psychology 53

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

The organization’s polling has found that three-quarters of parents support the idea of changing K-12 U.S. She also started Massachusetts Parents United, but in that work, saw a leadership vacuum at the national level that was keeping local groups from getting advice and resources.

Advocacy 127

Advocacy Charter School Political Science K-12 127

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Then, in mid-May 2023, a member of the school board told Grimes that it would not be renewing his contract, which was to end in June 2024. secretary of K-12 education in the Obama administration.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Such descriptions of climate change are muddled and misleading, according to four climate scientists who reviewed them as part of a Hechinger/HuffPost analysis of 32 middle school and high school textbooks and digital curricula and what they say on the subject. Another four of the science books did not discuss the topic at all.

Teaching 138

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 138

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

According to Education Week , Congress appropriates about $55 billion annually for K-12 education ($12 billion for special education), 8.7 The combination of district attrition and charter/private school promotion would spiral further against districts where the vast majority of children are currently educated.

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Charter School K-12 Private School Public School 80

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government-funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice. Proponents advertise vouchers as giving low-income families the same opportunities afforded to rich ones.

Social Justice 96

Social Justice Advocacy Public School Private School 96

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

The Office of Educational Technology is without leadership, for instance. And, right or wrong, people look to the department ​for leadership. Study after study have shown that students at private schools using vouchers do no better and sometimes even worse than similar peers who remain in public schools.

Private School 66

Private School Leadership Government Public School 66

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. Typing and tech?

Education 115

Education Elementary School Government K-12 115

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

repeatedly asked DeVos if she believed that all schools that receive public money, including private schools, should meet the same accountability standards. Families can choose any school, public or private: Taxpayer money follows the student. Schools] can follow the law and do it poorly.”. Tim Kaine, D-Va.,

Charter School 105

Charter School Private School Government Public School 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X, the notion that separate and equal is not only possible, but in some cases preferable, has been a rallying point for those who believe that black educators should be the ones designing and leading schools for black children. The group has plans to grow those numbers.

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Charter School Private School Heritage High School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

My childhood included yearly trips abroad and private schools for which my parents paid full freight. One night, my senior year of high school, I found myself on campus late without a ride home. Related: What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge ? Those facts often put me in awkward situations.

Private School 85

Private School Charter School Public School High School 85

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Trump talks about schools secretly imposing gender transition surgery on children. Finally, it’s likely that the administration will try to voucherize more public dollars to support families sending their children to private schools. Worse yet, some of conservatives’ K–12 ideas are at war with themselves.

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K-12 Heritage Leadership Civics 120

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Linda will use her decades of Leadership experience, and deep understanding of both Education and Business, to empower the next Generation of American Students and Workers, and make America Number One in Education in the World,” Trump wrote. She described a period of visiting charter, public, and private schools before Gov.

Education 94

Education Private School K-12 Education Policy 94