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/
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/
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...
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...
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...
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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. Parents of George Washi...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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/
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...
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...
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/
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/
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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/
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/
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...
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...
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/
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...
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...
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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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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/
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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 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/
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...
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...
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...
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�...
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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/
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...
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 ...
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...
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/
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...
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...
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/
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 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...
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...
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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...
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/
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 ...
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...
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/
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...
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 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 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 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...
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/
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/
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/