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California is investing $500M in therapy apps for youth. Advocates fear it won’t pay off.
With little pomp, California launched two apps at the start of the year offering free behavioral health services to youths to help them cope with everything from living with anxiety to body accep...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/04/25/california-invests-millions-in-therapy-apps-for-students/
NYC’s test opt-out rate doubled in the wake of the pandemic
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The epicenter of New York’s test refusal movement has long been outside the five boroughs, ta...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/04/26/nyc-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-the-wake-of-the-pandemic/
How this Colorado science teacher helps students become environmental changemakers
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. Yajaira Fuentes-Tauber maj...
Outgoing Philadelphia school board approves millions for new curriculum and asbestos abatement
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Philadelphia residents got their first opportunity to publicly comment and ask questio...
Chicago Public Schools CEO defends new budget formula as schools consider next year’s funding
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Chicago Public Schools officials defended the district’s new school funding formula Thursda...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/04/26/chicago-public-schools-defends-new-budget-formula/
School 87 parents share prior worries about building’s culture in wake of ‘fight club’ lawsuit
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. Parents of George Washi...
Gov. Bill Lee says he’ll sign bill to let some Tennessee teachers and staff carry guns in schools
Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday he will sign legislation to let some teachers and staff go armed in Tennessee public schools. “Districts have the option to choose,” Lee told reporters after the...
Colorado’s largest teachers union says it opposes school funding formula rewrite
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. The state’s largest teacher’s union has...
Illinois’ children and toddlers are experiencing more delays in getting early intervention services
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. About a year after Desi Evans’ son Christopher was born, she noticed he wasn’t making sou...
Changes to Tennessee’s 4th-grade reading law pass after compromise on retention policy
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Parents of Tennessee fourth graders would have input on ...
Superintendent Marie Feagins selects team to develop MSCS strategic plan
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Memphis-Shelby County Schools and statewide education policy. Superintendent Marie Feagins said Thursday that she has ...
Colorado mandatory reporting laws meant to protect children get another look
This story was produced by KFF Health News and is republished with permission. More than 60 years ago, policymakers in Colorado embraced the idea that early intervention could prevent child ab...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2024/04/25/colorado-mandatory-reporting-laws-get-another-look/
560 NYC schools were affected by torrential downpour in September, report finds
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. About 560 New York City public schools were affected by torrential rainfall last September, far...
Philadelphia’s new school board members get City Council approval
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. In a chorus of “ayes”, Philadelphia’s City Council voted to approve eight member...
The IEP recommended a special education classroom. We chose an inclusion school.
Every year, on the first day of school, we take a picture of my now five-year-old son, Percy, by a chalkboard documenting his age, grade, interests, and more. I’m sure you’ve seen these pictu...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/04/25/why-we-chose-inclusion-school-for-our-son-with-autism/
University of Memphis plans to launch new K-12 district this fall
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Memphis-Shelby County Schools and statewide education policy. The University of Memphis announced plans Wednesday to l...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2024/04/25/university-memphis-to-launch-k12-district-this-fall/
Tennessee 4th graders await test scores — and outcome of debate on policies that could hold back thousands
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Carly Fair, who has three children in Tennessee public s...
As NYC’s education budget hits a fiscal cliff, Adams saves several school programs
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. New York City public schools would see its budget shrink by 2.4%, or $808 million, next fiscal ...
Indiana teachers union endorses former state schools chief Jennifer McCormick for governor
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. Indiana’s largest tea...
Chicago student group hosts ‘peace talk’ forums for conversations on Israel and Gaza
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. “When you think of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, what feelings come up?” A dozen Li...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/04/24/chicago-student-conversations-about-israel-and-gaza/
Newark youth not in school or working nearly double the statewide rate, new report finds
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Nearly 1 in 5 Newark teens and adults between the ages of 16 and 24, 7,500 young people, do ...
Here’s how to vote in Chicago’s Local School Council elections
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. There’s a uniquely Chicago election happening this week: Local School Councils. Every res...
New ‘intellectual diversity’ law could have major effects on Indiana teacher training
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. In a Ball State classro...
IPS board president announces safety task force following School 87 lawsuit over ‘fight club’
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. The Indianapolis Public...
IPS plans to transfer school building to charter network in unique facilities deal
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. Indianapolis Public Sch...
Bill to let some teachers and school employees carry guns heads to Tennessee governor’s desk, despite protests
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with state education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Protesters screamed “blood on your hands!” then lay down...
Más que estudios académicos: el modelo de escuelas comuni...urora sirve de ejemplo mientras el interés crece en el estado
READ IN ENGLISH. Chalkbeat Colorado es un noticiero local sin fines de lucro que informa sobre las escuelas públicas en Denver y otros distritos. Suscríbete a nuestro boletín gratis por ema...
More than academics: Aurora’s community schools are an example as interest in the model grows
LEER EN ESPAÑOL. 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. When ...
DPSCD summer school program will aim to keep students on track after the school year winds down
Every K-8 student in the Detroit Public Schools Community District has access to summer school programming this year, school officials said this week. During a school board committee meeting Mo...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2024/04/23/detroit-summer-school-information-enrollment/
Chicago’s low-income families of students with disabilities eligible for new $500 grants
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. The city of Chicago is using pandemic relief money to offer $500 grants to students with disa...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/04/23/chicago-offers-grants-to-students-with-disabilities/
An attempt to roll back protections for trans students in sports angers NYC students and families
Rebeca moved to New York City a year ago to protect her daughter, now 8, from increasingly trans-restrictive laws in Florida. So it came as a shock when she received a 7 a.m. text from a parent...
Timeline: How private school voucher movement gained momentum in Tennessee before hitting a bump
As Tennessee lawmakers got to work this year, school voucher proponents appeared to be closing in on their ultimate prize: a state law that would eventually allow for taxpayer funding for most ki...
Redistricting: Denver school board chooses new map
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 school board ha...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2024/04/22/denver-school-board-chooses-new-map-redistricting/
Tennessee’s universal school voucher plan is dead for now, governor acknowledges
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. In the end, the gulf between competing school voucher bi...
The botched FAFSA rollout hurt immigrant families like mine
LEER EN ESPAÑOL Sitting at my dining room table, I dialed the toll-free number, hoping that today would be the day that someone actually picked up. Instead, I heard the words that have rung i...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/04/22/fafsa-poses-problems-for-immigrant-families/
La implementación fallida de la FAFSA perjudicó a familias como la mía
READ IN ENGLISH. Sentada a la mesa del comedor, marqué el número gratuito, esperando que hoy fuera el día en que alguien realmente contestara. En cambio, escuché las palabras que han reson...
Albany extends mayoral control for 2 years, tweaking NYC’s education panel
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Mayor Eric Adams is set to retain control of the city’s school system for another two years, ...
Charter school debate dominates Philadelphia school board nominees’ hearing
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Following a heated interrogation by the City Council over charter schools, eight of Ph...
Birdie’s Bookmobile spreads joy of reading to Detroit children
Inside classroom 148, a gleeful Alyce Hartman was telling the tale of three musicians: a squirrel cradling a guitar, a grizzly bear plucking a bass, and a chicken strumming a banjo. Hartman’s...
Will a child care center at Denver’s airport take off?
Denver airport leaders are considering building a child care center — maybe more than one — to help recruit and retain employees at the growing airport campus. To further study the concept,...
Seis cosas que hay que saber sobre las elecciones a la junta de educación de Chicago
Read in English . Algunas de las cuestiones sobre las que se preguntan los habitantes de Chicago en cuanto a las primeras elecciones de la junta escolar tienen que ver con el tema del dinero en...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/04/19/chicago-campanas-electorales-2024/
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson visits West Side high school to advocate for more Sustainable Community Schools
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Sitting in a circle with dozens of students at Collins Academy on Chicago’s west side, Mayo...
Eric Adams commits $500 million to partially avert fiscal cliff for NYC schools
Mayor Eric Adams is cobbling together more than $500 million in city and state funding to plug a hole in the Education Department’s budget left by the federal COVID relief funding that’s expi...
Metro Detroit educators to get lessons in making classes engaging from renowned educator
Leslie Love Smith-Thomas was shocked when she realized what was happening. Like other educators around her, the elementary school teacher jumped up from her seat and started clapping as a wave ...
Parents worry about student safety in IPS after classroom ‘fight club’ video emerges
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. Parents are demanding m...
New Title IX rules offer ‘comprehensive coverage’ for LGBTQ+ students and sexual violence survivors
This story was originally published by The 19th and is republished under a Creative Commons license . Sign up for The 19th’s newsletter here . Since President Joe Biden first took office, ad...
Ex-Denver Public Schools PIO says board members not getting enough information, but some disagree
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 former executive direc...
Tennessee budget keeps $144 million for statewide school voucher program that’s still in limbo
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Tennessee lawmakers approved a state budget Thursday tha...
Pennsylvania students must take state standardized tests online by 2026
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Pennsylvania will require nearly all students to take state standardized tests online ...
This Tennessee teacher brings lessons from the ocean to her landlocked students
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. As a child in Panama City, Florida, the call of the ocea...
Most NYC high schools lack newspapers. A new journalism curriculum could help change that.
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Katelynn Seetaram, a junior at Pace High School in Manhattan, never had much interest in journa...
Why support for students and a strong school culture are key to this middle school principal
As a high school wrestler many years ago, Jon Wilcox was expected to help coach much younger students who were learning to wrestle. It was a role he embraced and one that helped cement his decisi...
Bereaved students like me are more likely to struggle in school. Here’s what we need to thrive.
The afternoon wind blew through the classroom windows, causing the pages of “The Epic of Gilgamesh” to shift. I sat there silently. The words of my teacher Dr. Russell blurred into the backgr...
Half of new state spending on preschool was backed by COVID aid last year, new report finds
Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. After preschool enrollment took a nosedive during the pandemic, a new report offers ...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/04/18/preschool-expansion-funded-by-covid-aid-nieer-study-finds/
Chicago Public Schools estimates between 9,000 and 17,000 migrant students are enrolled, depending on who is counted
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. How many migrant students are enrolled in Chicago Public Schools? The exact number is hard to...
Gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott seeds grant program to help Colorado’s youngest children
A $2.5 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott will jump-start a new grant program that aims to improve outcomes for Colorado’s youngest children. Early Milestones Colorado, a statewide...
Don’t scale back sports access, advocates and students tell NYC
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. In late 2022, New York City’s Public Schools Athletic League made a bold promise: By the foll...
A ‘universal FAFSA’ law could be adopted in New York as budget negotiations continue
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. T’Kai Harvey, a sophomore at the City University of New York’s Hunter College, didn’t see...
Illinois lawmakers propose extending Chicago’s moratorium on school closures to 2027
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Illinois lawmakers want to extend a moratorium on school closures in Chicago and prevent chan...
Plans to put libraries in most Michigan schools get support from educators and parents
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. Six years after they were first introduced , a package ...
LISTEN: A high schooler working at Bloomberg — plus ‘shotgunning’ college applications
As many seniors are making decisions about their post-graduation plans, this episode of P.S. Weekly profiles two students giving us an inside look at their approaches to preparing for life after ...
Newark Board of Education 2024 election results: Voters pick incumbents backed by mayor
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Incumbents Dawn Haynes and Vereliz Santana and their running mates, Helena Vinhas and Kanile...
Colorado adult education providers say they may lose grant funding and have to trim classes
Sign up for our free monthly newsletter Beyond High School to get the latest news about the role of college and career education in Colorado. Students who attend The Learning Source’s Pueblo...
Ante los problemas del formulario FAFSA, los consejeros qui... los estudiantes sigan enfocados en sus sueños universitarios
READ IN ENGLISH Christian Rojas Linares no puede terminar de rellenar sus formularios de ayuda financiera porque está recibiendo un sinfín de mensajes de error. El estudiante de último curs...
Memphis’ Humes school, Elvis Presley’s alma mater, is closing after yearslong turnaround attempt
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Memphis-Shelby County Schools and statewide education policy. Humes Middle School in North Memphis will close at the e...
Delays in free MetroCards for homeless NYC families threaten school attendance
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Widespread shortages and delays in the distribution of free MetroCards to parents of homeless N...
Chicago Teachers Union reveals some key contract demands
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. The Chicago Teachers Union wants its next contract to include raising the salary floor for pa...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/04/16/chicago-teachers-union-contract-demands-bargaining/
Legislation that would require children who are 5 years old on Sept. 1 to attend kindergarten advances to the Michigan House.
The Michigan Senate has approved legislation that mandates kindergarten attendance in Michigan. The bill , which supporters say will improve early education, passed with a vote of 21-15, with R...
Philadelphia will stop the teacher shuffle between schools known as ‘leveling’
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. The Philadelphia school district will stop shifting teachers around between schools af...
Letting vouchers fund Indiana microschools could spur innovation, but also a fight for cash
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. Indianapolis mom Alicia...
Inside a unique public microschool in Indianapolis
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. On the bottom floor of ...
Chicago Public Schools kicks off community forums on upcoming strategic plan
Chicago Public Schools is mapping out its goals for the next five years and wants feedback from the public. The plan — which will be finalized this summer — will focus on three priorities: ...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/04/16/chicago-public-schools-strategic-plan-meeting/
New data shows Denver schools are more closely following discipline rules
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. Denver schools are doing a...
Albany to send $35.9B to NY schools as negotiations over mayoral control continue, Hochul says
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. Gov. Kathy Hochul said a preliminary budget agreement would allocate roughly $35.9 billion to N...
Dissecting frogs and dispelling stereotypes: This South Side teacher wants her second graders to love math and science
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Precious Allen’s main goal as a teacher is to create more first-generation doctors and engi...
Un grupo vinculado a Trump elabora un plan para negar la educación gratuita a los estudiantes indocumentados
READ IN ENGLISH. Un grupo conservador influyente publicó recientemente un informe en el que pide a los estados que exijan a las escuelas públicas que cobren a los niños migrantes no acompa�...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/04/12/trump-plyler-ninos-indocumentados-derechos-escolares/
Colorado lawmakers defeat bill that would have changed charter school operations and made it easier to close them
A bill that would have significantly changed how Colorado charter schools operate, making it simpler for local districts to close them, was defeated by state lawmakers Thursday in its first heari...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2024/04/12/colorado-bill-1363-vote-charter-school-accountabilty/
After his release from a Colorado prison, David Carrillo continues to educate students on the inside
This story was reported in partnership with Open Campus . Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free monthly newsletter Beyond High School to get the latest news about college and career paths for Colorad...
This Colorado teacher survived Columbine. Here’s how she prioritizes trauma-informed practices.
When Heather Martin was a senior in high school, she survived the Columbine High School shooting that killed 12 students and one teacher in Littleton, Colorado. Even as she tried to move on with ...
Three state Board of Education safety proposals fail to move forward
After the State Board of Education dismissed her three school safety proposals, member Nikki Snyder stormed out of the meeting Tuesday morning. It was the second time in five months one of Snyd...
A bungled FAFSA rollout threatens students’ college ambitions
LEER EN ESPAÑOL. Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. Christian Rojas Linares can’t finish his financial aid forms b...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/04/05/fafsa-problems-delays-endanger-college-plans/
Acoger a los estudiantes inmigrantes, más que un desafío generacional, es una obligación moral
READ IN ENGLISH. No se puede negar el desafío que presenta la afluencia de estudiantes recién llegados . Existen requisitos de pruebas, necesidades de transporte y apoyos académicos y de sa...
Welcoming migrant students is more than a generational challenge. It’s a moral obligation.
LEER EN ESPAÑOL. There’s no denying the challenges that the influx of newcomer students presents. There are testing requirements, transportation needs, and requisite Spanish-language acade...
It’s time to pay student teachers
I fell in love with teaching while working as an assistant educator at a preschool 16 years ago. I had not studied education, so I enrolled in an alternative certification program specifically de...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/04/05/paying-student-teachers-makes-sense-for-illinois/
How the 2024 National Teacher of the Year helps English learners adapt in rural Appalachia
Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. As an English as a Second Language specialist at her Tennessee school and a long-time...
I teach at an all-girls public school. Advocating for my students means prioritizing joy.
I teach at my dream school — an all-girls public school rich in culture and diversity and in the same Detroit system where I was raised. From the day I started, I envisioned all the ways I wou...
Six things to know about Chicago’s board of education election
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. LEER EN ESPAÑOL . Campaign money, voting districts, and school board member compensation a...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/03/27/chicago-school-board-race-campaigns-election-2024/
I turned my kitchen table into a classroom. Then I took the idea schoolwide.
Each year when June came around, a handful of my students faced a dilemma: Knock out those last assignments, or extend their high school career one more semester. These young adults had no time...
Eric Adams cuts $100 million from Education Department, despite partial reprieve
A new round of budget cuts announced Tuesday won’t hit New York City schools as hard as Mayor Eric Adams initially outlined, but will still add up to more than $100 million for next fiscal year...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/01/17/eric-adams-school-funding-cuts-less-than-expected/
Chicago’s transition to elected school board up in the air as disagreements remain among state lawmakers
How Chicago school board members will be elected one year from now is still in limbo after Illinois lawmakers couldn’t agree on the details of the transition this week. But lawmakers in both ...
Who will vote in Chicago’s first school board elections in 2024? Lawmakers are trying to decide.
Illinois lawmakers are debating competing proposals that would allow all Chicago voters to cast a ballot in the city’s first school board elections in 2024. A new proposal put forward by Hou...
Illinois lawmakers propose having half of Chicago voters select school board members in 2024
Roughly half of Chicago voters would get to elect school board members in 2024 and the other half would vote in 2026, according to new language proposed by state lawmakers late Friday. Earlier ...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2023/11/3/23945824/chicago-elected-school-board-voting-districts/
Philadelphia City Council to hold hearing on bias against Black-led charters
City Council plans to hold a hearing in December on whether the district has discriminated against Black-led charter schools. On Thursday, Council approved a resolution, unanimously and without...
Illinois lawmakers release third draft map for Chicago elected school board
As trick-or-treating got underway Tuesday night, Illinois lawmakers released a new draft map for Chicago’s soon-to-be-elected Board of Education . It’s their third attempt at drawing distr...
Illinois lawmakers push back deadline for drawing Chicago’s elected school board maps
Illinois lawmakers are giving themselves more time to divide Chicago into districts ahead of the city’s first school board elections . Under a measure passed late Thursday night, the deadlin...
Illinois lawmakers to hold hearing on revised draft map for Chicago elected school board ahead of possible vote
Illinois lawmakers released a new draft map for Chicago’s soon-to-be-elected school board at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday ahead of a hearing scheduled for this evening. Their initial proposal for d...
Chicagoans want elected school board to better represent Black and Latino students
Chicagoans who spoke at a public hearing Wednesday evening want to see the soon-to-be elected school board better represent the mostly Black and Latino students attending the city’s public scho...
AOC, Bo Dietl, and advocates for selective schools: Here’s who David Banks met as NYC schools chief
David Banks became the leader of New York City’s school system in January at a moment of crisis, with the omicron variant fueling an explosion in coronavirus cases that sent student attendance ...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2022/10/24/23421847/david-banks-schedule-nyc-school-chancellor/
Think my South Side high school is a ‘bad school’? Think again.
When I say I attend Wendell Phillips, a public high school in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, people who know me as quiet and studious are often surprised. They ask me why, out of all the h...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2022/2/8/22890130/wendell-phillips-high-school-south-side/
I expected the America I had seen on TV. But life on Chicago’s South Side is a struggle.
My name is Ajibola (pronounced ha-jee-boh-la). Try saying it three times, and I’m pretty sure you’ll say it wrong. Most people do. My name is Nigerian, and so am I. I moved to Chicago almos...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2021/12/17/22815394/chicago-south-side-immigration-american-dream/