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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

For this story, reporters analyzed every available open-enrollment charter application approved between 2005 and 2015 — the decade after Katrina. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S. It’s stuff that we learned.”. It’s stuff that we learned.”. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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Broken system: Child care subsidies ensure low-quality, limit access

The Hechinger Report

“Child care is not funded to serve all children who are eligible and it’s not funded to provide rates that ensure quality care for all eligible children,” said Karen Schulman, the child care and early learning research director at the National Women’s Law Center, which advocates for gender equity. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

And when Lyon helped knock down the former Seward Middle School in 2005, he said the wooden beams were so rotted he could push a pencil through them. The schools’ primary function is to provide a place for students to learn, but the wider community has a stake in keeping the facilities in good shape. It’s happened before.

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