The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Since 2001, the upscale auction, part of Collier County’s annual Naples Winter Wine Festival, has raised more than $176 million for local children’s nonprofits, including dozens that benefit the children of Immokalee’s farmworkers, according to the Naples Children & Education Foundation, which hosts the festival.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Indiana’s foster care intake has more than doubled since 2001 , the sharpest increase in the nation. She attends a local elementary school, where Matt Rhoda is the principal. On a Thursday afternoon in May, Walker met with a local teacher about an elementary school child who could barely make it through the school day.

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic.

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Study Advocacy Training Groups 42

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite. Bush’s education reform policy.

Education 40

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Test data paints a dire picture: Educational assessment nonprofit NWEA found that seventh and eighth graders’ scores on its math assessments fell in 2022, the only group of kids for whom that was true. Math, meanwhile, gets more complicated in middle school, with the introduction of concepts like equations and linear functions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

million in 2001. A series of meetings with parents and community members preceding Superintendent Lane’s taking over the job had a common theme. Curriculum director King noted that many more teachers than expected attended a recent meeting about retirement. “A They wanted excellence,” Smith said. Afterward, J.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

In Tennessee, 50,000 or roughly 5 percent of the state’s elementary and middle school students were assigned high-dosage tutoring during the 2021-22 school year. Tutoring was a big component of the 2001 No Child Left Behind law that aimed to lift the achievement of low-income children.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

You talk to anybody at a school or staff about the need, and whether they have what they need to meet the needs of these kids. A graduate of Detroit Public Schools and the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree, Vaughn adopted a newborn named Daniel in 2001 and, later, his biological younger brother, Jacob.

Education 145

Education Advocacy Policies System 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

OIG’s charge was to assess the risk to three offices in the Department of Education: the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education , the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services , and the Office of Innovation and Improvement. Related: Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

DALLAS — When Lauren McKinnon heard a new public elementary school was opening close to her home in Dallas, it was good news; but when she learned the school would offer an all-girls education format with a focus on STEM, she was excited, knowing inequities often exist for girls – like her daughters – in math and science.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

She works for the South Texas Pregnancy Care Center in Seguin, Texas, a group founded in 2001 to counsel women against getting abortions. In 2022, she wrote, Lewisville adopted a new sex ed program to meet updated state standards, which went into effect that year. Related: Five things you need to know about sex ed in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Board of Education school-segregation decision, Williams saw a post on Facebook shared by an old high-school friend she knew from her days playing trumpet in the Gardendale marching band: The newly empowered Gardendale Board of Education would be meeting in a few hours. After the meeting ended, two parents approached Williams in the lobby.

Education 111

Education Report Data E-rate 111