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Reports finds charter schools gained more than 300,000 new students since 2019 Black and Hispanic families have been flocking to charter schools in recent years, the National Alliance For Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) said on Thursday. Debbie Veney, who is the senior vice president of communications and marketing of NAPCS and the…

Charter schools in New York City outperformed their peers in traditional public schools on state tests last spring, according to an analysis of state test score data. (Staten Island Advance/Annalise Knudson) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City charter schools have outperformed traditional public schools in both reading and math,…

The new curriculum provides more guidelines for teachers and considers students’ needs at each grade level, leaders say. The goal is to teach students to be good digital citizens and get them thinking about future tech careers. This is Damian Furmanchin’s first year teaching digital literacy at Eliza B. Kirkbride…

Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a decade ago at her high school in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. Nearly half the school’s students were white, but the freshman remedial math classes were made up of almost all students of color. Reed, then chair of the math department at…

Without reliable data, it is impossible to make systemic changes. Last month, Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. released the new district plan intending to make Philadelphia the fastest-achieving school district in the nation. His first priority is to improve safety and well-being — including both environmental hazards and community violence.…

Melanie Hester could see her fifth graders were confused. A history lesson she was teaching about Native Americans asked the students to think about how they could honor the cultural history of the land where the United States now stands. “Where are the Native Americans now?” her students wanted to…

As a school psychologist, I’ve spent most of my time providing counseling for students and making sure those considered academically or behaviorally at risk get the services they’re entitled to. It has been rewarding, but also frustrating, as I watched as students with disabilities were disproportionately disciplined. I will never…

Confronting classrooms without permanent teachers, school administrators across the country are turning to an assortment of incentives — many of them financial, some unprecedented — to fill widespread vacancies. Some districts are offering thousands in signing bonuses, others adapt to four-day work weeks and many are easing the way for…