The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Greg Abbott expressed confidence last week that he now has enough votes in the Texas House to pass a school voucher program, his top legislative priority since last year. It does not have to be one or the other, and it’s wrong to pit one against the other.” Meanwhile, families who reside in poor communities often do not use vouchers.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2012

Digital publishing tools will function to bridge the gap between websites and traditional apps.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If you live in Arizona, school choice may be coming to your neighborhood soon. As someone who has had more school choice than I know what to do with, I can tell you what may feel like a shocking surprise: Private schools have the power to choose, not parents. What privatizers call choice does not really exist.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Consider the current makeup of the American economy: There are 8 million construction workers in the United States, more than double the number of public and private school teachers. An improved system would better balance college preparation with career and technical education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2025

Its a question that scores of district leaders across the country are now asking themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Picture a young girl named Emma, who finds herself transitioning from a public school to a private school due to her unique educational needs. Many parents agree with their public schools’ recommendations to move their children to private schools to better address their educational needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2022

The program uses taxpayer dollars to help rural families who live far from a public school attend a private school instead. Up for debate now is what the broader effects of the ruling might be, as well as its impact on public school funding. Credit: Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Whats more, they argued, the districts policy actually introduced new inequalities in access to advanced math courses because private schools and wealthy parent teacher associations could fund additional course offerings.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Opting for private school Beth Netherland, who says she is the mother of a child with learning struggles, posted on X. Social or psychological benefitslike peer interaction, belonging, and reduced isolationarent incidental to learning/academic achievement. Theyre foundational.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades. Lawmakers in Ohio in recent years have lifted income caps on those vouchers, along with their requirement that to be eligible, families must live in an area with schools designated as failing.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I wish that I could make sure there was a school librarian in every single elementary school and high school. I wish every school was resourced with a full-time, certified school librarian.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. As in many Delta communities, the town’s private school was founded in 1965 —the same year the community’s public schools began desegregation. To find their white peers you’ll have to drive over to Indianola Academy.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The University of North Carolina Press “Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools” by Michelle Purdy, Ph.D. 2018) Purdy’s “Transforming the Elite” shines a light on a lesser-discussed part of America’s history of segregation — private schools. Jones-Rogers, Ph.D.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

When it started, Fiske claims Mysa was the first school to call itself a microschool. But these days, microschools — loosely defined as schools with relatively few students that function as private schools or learning centers for homeschool students — seem to be everywhere.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. Most parachute kids attend private schools, which can range from swank boarding schools like Phillips Andover, to small private day schools. A small, but growing, number attend public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If we can’t reverse enrollment losses, the cost of running a school will become untenable. Public school enrollment fell nearly 3 percent after the pandemic hit. Some children switched to private schools. If access and quality are compromised, it will risk our democratic foundations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In New York, where I live, the city spends upwards of $300 million a year in taxpayer funds on private school tuition for children with disabilities. Many more states mandated hallmarks of the Orton-Gillingham method, specifically calling for “multisensory” instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In Florida and Wisconsin, schools have padlocked or sealed drinking fountains to keep kids from using them. Students at a private school in San Rafael, California, are learning in outdoor classrooms created from tree stumps and hay bales.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Charter schools similarly involve state financing, allocated to state-chartered, privately managed and operated schools, which typically face at least somewhat tighter state oversight and regulation than purely “private” schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2019

In Reggio-inspired schools, children are viewed as capable of constructing their own learning when guided by a skilled teacher who understands the importance of harnessing the natural curiosity of young children. Related: Will the real Montessori please stand up?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2019

Secretary of Education, continues to insist that private-school vouchers are the magic wand that the nation can wave to create equity for disadvantaged children — especially disadvantaged children of color. And this, in part, is why neighborhood schools are so important. . Betsy DeVos, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2020

And while it launched just as the coronavirus was grabbing international attention, it will start working with more schools just as they are addressing glaring gaps in educational progress as a result of months of remote learning. Already, the institute has projects under way with a handful of public and private schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 16, 2015

underfunding of public schools. legislation favoring – and spending of public monies on – alternative teacher preparation programs, charters, vouchers, homeschooling, and other non-public school options. mass firings in so-called ‘failing schools’ enactment of ‘parent trigger’ laws.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

million — number of public and private school students stuck at home during the pandemic. million public and private school students stuck at home. million public and private school students stuck at home. Until the coronavirus happened.

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Digital Promise

MAY 29, 2015

Many more public school districts are rethinking how students learn and how teachers teach. No longer is “innovation” reserved for a select few charter and private schools. The League has more than doubled in size, now with 57 members across the country, representing more than 3.2 million students.

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Private School Leadership Public School Teaching 124

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

birth and immigration rates have been falling since before the COVID-19 outbreak, decreasing the number of school-aged children,” according to an analysis by the firm. The pandemic accelerated these trends and sparked a shift in enrollment from traditional public schools to charter schools, homeschools, and private schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. Credit: eLearn.fyi. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck and classes shifted online last spring, Sophia Joffe was in 11th grade.

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Civics Digital Resources K-12 Lesson Plan 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

“So the tax base went to the city school district, and it made obstacles for the county even greater as they had even less to work with.”. That same year, Starkville Academy, a private school called a segregation academy by some in the area, took in its first students, most of them white. Hope and faith. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The family, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has chosen a hybrid home school model – half a day of distance learning with the local school and half a day of activities and lessons arranged at home. “I She represents a growing number of Muslim families who are forgoing the public school system.

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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.

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Charter School Private School Critical Thinking Leadership 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2020

In the 2011-12 school year, 19 percent of public and private schools in the United States did some form of looping. Teacher licensure and standards vary from state to state. But, even so, the current variance in standards and licensure shouldn’t be a hindrance to getting started.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2015

We can’t do what that other school is doing because… they are bigger and have more resources. they have a more supportive school board. they can get kids to come before school. they can get kids to come after school. they can get kids to come during school. they are a private school.

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Charter School Leadership Private School Professional Development 103

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Those states saw private-school enrollment grow by over 100,000 students.

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Private School High School Public School Education Policy 118

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We are forced to send our children to schools where these faulty products and methods are imposed on them. When our children do not learn, we are forced to seek alternative solutions, but few of us can afford tutors or private schools with curriculums seated in the science of reading, and fewer still can afford to homeschool.

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Education Tutoring Pedagogy Private School 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Prior to his fifth grade year, the parents rejected the school’s proposed IEP and sent Endrew (who had autism) to a private school. The private school developed a behavior plan and more substantive academic goals. While Endrew was still at the private school, public school officials proposed another IEP.

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Private School Education Public School High School 79