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I came to the United States 35 years after the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka decision, ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. As a mix...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Keiana Barrett still has the button she wore at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Th...
Welcome to P.S. Weekly’s food episode, where students are the critics. High schoolers in the Bronx sound off on the “soggy” grilled cheese sandwiches served in their cafeteria (on “Vega...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news. This article was co-rep...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. The portion of young Chicagoans neither going to school nor working is returning to pre-COVID...
LAKE ELSINORE, California — Yahushua Robinson was an energetic boy who jumped and danced his way through life. Then, a physical education teacher instructed the 12-year-old to run outside on a ...
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Thanks to an infusion of federal pandemic relief money, city officials bolstered programs that ...
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Lawmakers, parents, and school safety advocates rallied in Albany on Tuesday, calling for the p...
THE WRITER OF THIS ESSAY IS A 2023-24 STUDENT VOICES FELLOW AT CHALKBEAT. CLICK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR HIGH SCHOOL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. Content warning: This essay contains references to thoug...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. On a recent Tuesday morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson visited classrooms at Kelvyn Park High Sch...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy Michigan lawmakers are poised to approve a state educati...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. New York City public schools could lose hundreds of nurses next year, as the city faces the exp...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. Fourteen preschoolers sang...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. To unearth the forgotten history of the Kansas women who served as plaintiffs in the ...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. The Denver teachers union ...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Newark Public Schools wants to see a districtwide expansion of an artificial intelligence tu...
This story originally appeared in Block Club Chicago . Chicago’s dancing crossing guard has won Chicago Public Schools’ Crossing Guard of the Year award. Tammy Anderson will be one of fo...
Schools and money loomed large in the 2024 Colorado legislative session. State lawmakers approved a new school funding formula 10 years in the making. They passed a “fully funded” K-12 budg...
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. New York City’s Education Department recently launched a program allowing schools to donate u...
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I have no vivid recollections of attending a segregated school, but I am aware that my educational journey commenced in Head Start at what was then Lincoln Consolidated School for Black students....
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The following is adapted from “They Came for the Schools: One Town’s Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America’s Classrooms,” a book by NBC News senior reporter Mike Hixe...
Sign up for our free monthly newsletter Beyond High School to get the latest news about college and career paths for Colorado’s high school grads. On a windy afternoon this week, students on...
READ IN ENGLISH. Una oleada de dinero único será proporcionada a 85 distritos escolares de Colorado – casi la mitad de todos los distritos del estado – este mes para ayudar a compensar l...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. Colorado’s State Board o...
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. To reduce New York City’s class sizes under a new state mandate, Education Department officia...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. After a campaign to oust him from the Philadelphia Board of Education failed, Reginald...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Tennessee teachers can move forward with their lawsuit c...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. A former California park ranger traced his fingers over the Chinese characters carved...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Latinx students in New Jersey make up over a third of the public school population but face ...
I heard an odd sound walking into the school building one day: coo-coo, coo-coo. Unmistakably, it was a pigeon, but it didn’t sound like it was outside. I walked down the hall to see our dean...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Dozens of pro-Palestinian educators and parent leaders staged a die-in outside the Education De...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. New York City schools Chancellor David Banks defended his record on antisemitism during a tense...
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After moving from a high school in Jefferson County with about 1,400 students to West High School in Denver with under 600 students, 18-year-old Kyree Romo noticed a lot of differences. She’s...
Sign up for our free monthly newsletter Beyond High School to get the latest news about college and career paths for Colorado’s high school grads. Some incarcerated Colorado students who com...
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It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, and in this special episode, P.S. Weekly and Chalkbeat reporters — plus their parents — share stories about the teachers who have inspired, encouraged, and ...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy Kelley Cusmano, an English language arts teacher at Ro...
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All eyes will be on New York City schools Chancellor David Banks on Wednesday as he is set to testify before a Republican-led congressional committee about antisemitism in K-12 schools. It’s ...
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. New York City’s teachers union released an analysis Tuesday that contends hundreds of schools...
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This story was originally published by The Pennsylvania Capital-Star A bill reviving the school voucher program killed by House Democrats during last year’s budget debates passed the Senate ...
Kimberly Gil knows what it’s like to struggle with mental health and not have a place to turn for support. Gil, a 16-year-old sophomore at the High School for Social Justice in Bushwick, Broo...
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Applying to Philadelphia’s free preschool options may soon be much easier. Mayor C...
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Schools Chancellor David Banks intends to bring back a controversial admissions bump for Manhattan eighth-graders at some of New York City’s most sought-after high schools , he told parents thi...
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We grappled in 2020 with a pandemic and the senseless murders of several unarmed Black men that led to social unrest in our country. The murder of Ahmaud Arbery, shot to death while jogging, hit ...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. For years, people have mix...
New York City schools Chancellor David Banks sought to strike a balance between affirming students’ rights to protest and disavowing hate speech as he responded to college campus unrest and pr...
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This story was reported by Open Campus and is republished with permission. Twenty women at Denver Women’s Correctional Facility will be part of a new bachelor’s degree program later this m...
I’m in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading. Literacy is a foundational skill...
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In this special episode of P.S. Weekly, student reporters Shoaa Khan and Jose Santana spoke to Chancellor David Banks about a range of issues facing the city’s schools — from efforts to expan...
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It’s testing season in New York once again. Schools across the state will administer standardized reading and math exams for grades 3-8 in April and May, as well as science exams for eighth g...
Colorado students posted the lowest scores in more than a decade on the test known as “the nation’s report card,” with the steepest declines in middle school math and with Hispanic students...
A charter group linked to Michigan’s Hillsdale College on Thursday abruptly pulled its three applications to open schools in Tennessee following public outrage over controversial statements mad...
The schools in Newark and nearby communities are among the most severely segregated in the nation, according to a new nationwide analysis. The Newark area ranks first in economic segregation an...
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Teacher Appreciation Week is a celebration of educators. But after more than a year of disrupted learning due to the coronavirus , a week of festivities feels both needed and insufficient in 2021...
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A full 65 years after Brown v. Board of Education was unanimously decided, New York City schools remain among the most segregated in the country. To mark the Friday anniversary of the landmar...
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Linda Brown, whose name became part of American history through the Brown v. Board of Education case, died Sunday. She became the center of the legal and political battle to integrate U.S. scho...
Segregation between white students and students of color in Indiana remains high, according to a new analysis from Indiana University. This is true even as Indiana sees a growing share of non-w...
While the de Blasio administration stalls on school desegregation, New York City students suffer. The 1966 Coleman Report — widely considered the most important piece of education research of...
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LaTonya Kirkland was a 14-year-old high school freshman the year a judge ordered her and her friends from Indianapolis’ East side to make a 20-minute bus ride to school. She remembers the bus...
Read more of Chalkbeat's coverage of the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. When Miranda Schaelling started an Advanced Placement environmental science course three years ago a...