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

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books.

Charter School 132

Charter School Private School Government Public School 132

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. Changing negative perceptions that date back to school desegregation during the 1970s hasn’t been easy, they said.

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Private School Public School High School Elementary School 115

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers. a parent’s) political support.

Public School 73

Public School K-12 Charter School Elementary School 73

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Montana Department of Revenue , those who think that more private learning options should be available to families and those who disagree are squinting to see an outcome that — like it or not — immediately shakes up traditional K-12 schools in the United States. Is change forthcoming? More than a century ago, a U.S.

Public School 56

Public School K-12 Heritage Private School 56

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 142

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

One can study the students at schools that have adopted the Core Knowledge curriculum, but it’s hard to know if the students who attend these schools would have scored just as high in reading if they had been taught the usual way at a traditional public school. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

Charter School 145

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years.

High School 145

High School Research Tradition Tutoring 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

This was clearly no ordinary public school. A driveway circling a landscaped pond led them to the school’s main hall. Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school.

Charter School 112

Charter School Public School Tradition K-12 112

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. as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

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Charter School Tradition Public School Private School 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson teaches at Deerfield Academy , a private school in western Massachusetts. The type of text analysis he guides his students through is far more common in colleges and graduate-school programs, but the coding that makes it possible is an increasingly popular skill to teach children.

Humanities 112

Humanities K-12 Tradition Private School 112

ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

That’s significant in an era when college leaders are concerned about attracting and retaining students who may be skeptical about the value of a degree and also worried about the impending “ enrollment cliff ” resulting from fewer Americans of traditional college age coming up in the next few years.

High School 144

High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 144

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

In many cases, either white or Black families flocked to different charter schools, leaving behind a less diverse student body in traditional public schools. The reason for the rise in segregation in the 1990s before the number of charter schools soared is harder to understand.

Charter School 144

Charter School Private School Public School Tradition 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? Let’s consider for a moment if our egalitarian impulses, however well-intended, have prevented us from pursuing a vision of public education that could be more fruitful…. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Hirsch, Jr. Fordham Institute.

Education 127

Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 127

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

average and they do even better than their peers in similarly wealthy school districts, according to the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading.

Elementary School 128

Elementary School Public School Tradition Private School 128

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

Tradition 138

Tradition Public School Research Psychology 138

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School.

Private School 111

Private School Elementary School Public School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Teachers and school personnel who work with low-income students are more likely to trust their own work and don’t see students as liabilities or risks. If teachers commit to sending their own children to public schools maybe people who pay tuition to alleviate their fears will follow.

Education 90

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The public school built in 1989 received an “F” rating on its most recent state evaluation, as did almost a third of the schools in the Jackson school district. No one understands this struggle better than Sharolyn Miller, chief financial officer for Jackson Public Schools. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

Charter School 110

Charter School Public School Social Justice High School 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2019

In Newark, New Jersey, for example, alumni from Uncommon Schools , which enrolls poor, minority students, are on track to graduate with bachelor’s degrees at rates better than students from affluent families. School districts are unlikely to stop resisting charters, but they are likely to slowly embrace these collaborations as a win-win.

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Charter School Advocacy Private School Tradition 104

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

In our nation’s capital, 81 percent of the public schools require a uniform; 65 percent regulate the length of skirts; 58 percent forbid tank tops; 42 percent ban tights and/or leggings; and 45 percent require students to wear belts, according to the findings of the report, which was published by the National Women’s Law Center.

Teaching 87

Teaching Charter School Middle School Public School 87

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

Education 111

Education Charter School Private School Economics 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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Tutoring Charter School High School K-12 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. Maybe teaching.”.

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K-12 Public School History Tutoring 99

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”. All of our traditional tools,” said Smith, “have to be reconsidered.”. 13, 2018.

Anthropology 111

Anthropology Private School Cultures Economics 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Bricolage has been anointed as one of the good schools by middle class and affluent parents, who have long complained about the lack of options in the public school system for their children. Citywide, black students make up 82 percent of public school enrollment, while low-income children also comprise 82 percent of students.

Charter School 84

Charter School Pedagogy K-12 Public School 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2016

A new charter school provision would drain local money away from public schools, a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of Jackson parents against Gov. Phil Bryant, the Mississippi Department of Education and Jackson Public Schools charges. We value public education.”

Charter School 46

Charter School Private School Public School Tradition 46

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. No one in her family had ever left home for college.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

CITTA has experience building both a hospital and a school in Juanga, a village in India, which now has 360 students from kindergarten through 10 th grade. The private schools are not necessarily better,’’ Sahni said. “I I don’t know that just becoming private will make anything different.”.

Heritage 86

Heritage Government Economics High School 86

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — Six years ago, author and creative writing teacher Anne Gisleson was looking for a school for her 4-year-old son, Otto, who attended a private Lutheran preschool in her Bywater neighborhood. But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods.

Economics 82

Economics Charter School Public School Heritage 82

Maitri Learning

JULY 13, 2024

We hope you’ll find this series helpful no matter whether your teaching in a public school, a private school, a homeschool, or a Montessori environment. Our Approach and Philosophy At Maitri Learning, we recognize and respect the diversity of educational philosophies.

Education 40

Education Private School Tradition Public School 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Noble Minds is not the only school in New Orleans that has put a greater emphasis on serving all students, including those with disabilities, in recent years. The state-run Recovery School District governed most of the charter schools in New Orleans at the time. It’s overseen by the state school board.).

Charter School 84

Charter School Education Government Tradition 84

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. No silver bullet.

Junior High 75

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

million, or roughly 13 percent, of all public school students receive such services. Too often, by the time these students reach high school, problems that began in the early grades have reached a point of no return; too many children are pushed out into the real world ill-prepared for what lies ahead.

Education 102

Education Tutoring Elementary School High School 102

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

Charter School 87

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2018

Special education has been a challenge in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, as nearly all traditional schools have been replaced by independent charter schools. In traditional school districts, the central office is responsible for placing special education students and ensuring they receive the proper services.

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Charter School Education High School Tradition 50