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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

The Hechinger Report

The Title I program identifies what fiscal resources schools need, but Congress hasn’t allocated enough resources to meet those needs. The movement manifests itself in corporate tax breaks, which don’t require companies to contribute their fair share to state taxes, a significant part of districts’ budgets.

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A Billionaire Benefactor, a Disputed Ballot Issue and a Community College Turnaround

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“It was about as big a mess as you can ever imagine,” says James Henry Russell, who left his previous role as superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District to become president of the college in 2011. Things changed in 2001, when then-president Carl Nelson died unexpectedly, leaving the campus and its leadership in shock.

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The opioid crisis took their parents, now foster kids left behind are being failed again

The Hechinger Report

Indiana’s foster care intake has more than doubled since 2001 , the sharpest increase in the nation. That’s the thing that shocked me more than anything,” said O’Brien, who is now retired after decades working at Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical company. In Indiana, where Tessa lives, the situation is especially dire.

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It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools

The Hechinger Report

After World War II broke out, Lawrence Holt, the father of one of Hahn’s students and a partner in a shipping company, noticed that many young sailors were dying after their ships were torpedoed, while older seamen were able to hang on. In 1933, Hahn fled Nazi Germany and opened a boarding school in an old estate near the Scottish coast.

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Rangatiratanga: How Tapping Into New Zealand’s Indigenous Concepts Sparked New Educational Gains

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You are meeting the learners in the Manaiakalani education program. Finally in 2001, the school leadership and the parents jointly engaged in a painful analysis that lead to a profound conclusion: If we don’t change, the results won’t change. Manaiakalani Digital Teaching Academy teachers meet for their training day.

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In charter-school oversight, as in foreign affairs: Trust, but verify

The Hechinger Report

A lack of appropriate oversight can be found in Betsy DeVos’s backyard, Michigan, where legislators repealed a cap on charter schools in 2011. Department of Education released an audit of both education management organizations (EMOs) and charter management organizations (CMOs), covering the period of July 2011 through March 2013.