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.

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Private School Elementary School Charter School Government 78

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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Charter School Leadership Elementary School Private School 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

There, Meghan McFadyen asks kids in her mixed fourth- and fifth-grade classroom who have “Presence” among their top strengths to help peers, because in theory no performance anxiety will block them from taking leadership positions. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools? Photo: Gail Cornwall for The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. Brian Beabout, , a former New Orleans teacher who now studies the city’s charter schools as an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of New Orleans.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

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.

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Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 76

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Chen, who was hired as the school’s first principal of color in late 2017, said a better description might have been “exclusive,” and not just because of the $12,500 to $20,500 tuition, but because of the cultural rigidity that clearly delineated outsiders and insiders. Her parents wanted a private school with strong academics.

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Private School K-12 Economics Public School 125

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.

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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

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Elementary School Charter School K-12 High School 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Through her work in Massachusetts, Rodrigues met leaders at the Walton Family Foundation — created by Walmart’s founders and a driving force behind charter school expansion and other education reform efforts — which is now a major funder of NPU. There’s no evidence whatsoever that they represent parents in any way, shape or form.

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Advocacy Charter School Political Science K-12 127

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Kids are growing up really fast because of the internet, and then you get to high school and Covid happens. The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change. the superintendent of North Carolina’s Rowan-Salisbury Schools, would replace William Hite, who led Philadelphia schools for a decade.

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Oral History History High School Public School 120

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Now, parents like Martin say they’re starting to reconsider their expectations of schools after a year and a half at home. Virtual learning gave them a sense of options outside the traditional public school model. She’s also exploring private schools. They are using Gov.

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Leadership Public School Private School Tradition 135

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.

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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools. About 92 percent of Native students attend traditional public schools and 8 percent attend BIE schools.) The schools mascot is the eagle.

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Education Elementary School Government K-12 121

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s stance on school choice has created unlikely alliances with deep-pocketed conservatives and has put him at odds with mainstream civil rights advocates, but his work is impacting a younger generation of black school leaders striving to create culturally relevant institutions for the students they serve.

Charter School 111

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.

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Private School Charter School Public School High School 91