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English learners stopped coming to class during the pandemic. One group is tackling the problem by helping their parents 

The Hechinger Report

More than half the children speak Spanish, but it’s common to hear conversations in Dari, Pashto, Russian and other languages spoken in the hallways, too. In prior years, the top spoken languages in Charlotte schools were Spanish and Vietnamese, Trez said. The services it provides to families and students are free.

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Should we test all 2-year-olds for autism?

The Hechinger Report

His bilingual vocabulary had expanded to include “mama,” “apple,” “up,” and “aita”—a term that appeared to mean “there it is,” which he had invented by combining the Spanish words “allí” and “está.”. He began flapping his arms when he became excited, and soon thereafter, as if overnight, the toddler lost his words.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

Newspapers had reported that nearly everyone in Williams’s graduating class at Sci Academy in New Orleans had been accepted to college, as if they were a group moving toward one unprecedented future together. When Williams enrolled in mid-August 2008, she found that Sci Academy was different from the schools she’d attended before.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

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.”. Lee Academy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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In a Hostile Housing Landscape, Solutions Emerge to Support Home-Based Child Care Providers

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If words can describe it, I feel like I’m a person that never gets lucky. But in spring 2022, as providers in Nevada began to participate in the 12-week Wonderschool Academy, a theme emerged. Since March 2022, more than 190 people have completed the Wonderschool Academy in Nevada, according to a spokesperson with DWSS.

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