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30/08/2024

⚠️ APPLICATIONS DUE TODAY ⚠️ Our paid teen essay-writing program is open to public high school juniors and seniors in NYC and Detroit. Details at the link below. ⬇️

30/08/2024

🚨 TODAY 🚨 Join us and the NYPL Center for Educators and Schools for a back-to-school comedy night just for educators! 👇

A comedy night just for teachers!

30/08/2024

“We just try to help people see the good in life,” the student said. “That there are other ways to handle problems without violence or having to raise your voice and get crazy with somebody.”

30/08/2024

Teachers in most school districts across the country return to school about a week before kids show up. In New York City, teachers have two days.

29/08/2024

In our phone-free school, my students have taken to my old-school boombox.

29/08/2024

🚨 APPLICATIONS DUE TOMORROW 🚨 Our Student Voices Fellowship gives public high school juniors and seniors in Detroit and NYC the opportunity to shape their experiences into published essays. Share this paid opportunity with the students you know!

If you're having trouble viewing this form on mobile, go here. Chalkbeat's Student Voices Fellowship gives public high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to shape their experiences into published essays. During the 2024-25 school year, we are inviting students in New York City and Detroit to...

29/08/2024

🍎 TOMORROW 🍎 Join us for this fun back-to-school comedy night for educators! RSVP below.

A comedy night just for teachers!

29/08/2024

Rhode Island has attracted national attention for its all-hands-on-deck approach to tackling chronic absenteeism. Principals there say making kids feel included, constant outreach to parents, and offering incentives have been key to improving attendance.

28/08/2024

“Usually, these opportunities are found in other boroughs, like Manhattan or Brooklyn or Queens,” one student said. “It felt really nice to have a program here in the Bronx that gave us an opportunity to show our talents.”

27/08/2024

“It’s sad to lose such a talented person,” said Urban Assembly CEO David Adams.

27/08/2024

Meet Healthbeat, which is officially launching today to cover public health in New York and Atlanta.

26/08/2024

ProPublica identified five schools in Macon, Georgia, likely founded as segregation academies. For Black families, this can make tough decisions about school choice even more complicated.

26/08/2024

Unwind with us and the NYPL Center for Educators and Schools before the school year kicks into high gear (and remember to laugh when lessons don’t go as planned!). This free event is on Friday. RSVP below. ⬇️

A comedy night just for teachers!

26/08/2024

Calls to abolish the U.S. Department of Education have been around nearly as long as the department itself. Now the 2024 campaign is breathing new life into an old idea.

25/08/2024

Our Student Voices Fellowship gives public high school juniors and seniors in Detroit and NYC the opportunity to shape their experiences into published essays. Share this paid opportunity with the students you know! Deadline is Friday, August 30.

25/08/2024

Many providers are sticking to short days at the beginning of the school year, arguing young children need to acclimate to school.

25/08/2024

A free event just for educators! RSVP for this back-to-school comedy night at the link below.

A comedy night just for teachers!

24/08/2024

Our teen essay-writing program is open to public high school juniors and seniors in NYC and Detroit. Details at the link below. ⬇️

24/08/2024

Samaria “Cookie” Mitcham Bailey was among the first Black students to desegregate public schools in Macon, Georgia. Sixty years later, her great-granddaughter enrolled at a school that was likely founded as a segregation academy. (via ProPublica)

24/08/2024

The new tool is being developed through a partnership between the city and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s BluePrint Labs, officials said.

24/08/2024

Money for new contracts have yet to reach class providers, while those near clusters of migrant shelters are cut off.

24/08/2024

English scores fell slightly more in districts that adopted new reading curriculums, though experts cautioned against sweeping conclusions about the city’s literacy overhaul.

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How is NYC changing the way students learn to read?

This fall, changes are coming to New York City classrooms. Education department officials say they will require all elementary schools to adopt a phonics-based reading program — a potentially seismic shift in how tens of thousands of public school students are taught to read. Join Chalkbeat New York in a virtual panel discussion on literacy, held on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 4:30-5:30 EDT.

NYC mayoral candidate Scott Stringer on early education, youth programs

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NYC mayoral candidate Shaun Donovan on early education, youth programs

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NYC mayoral candidate Ray McGuire on early education, youth programs

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NYC mayoral candidate Maya Wiley on early education, youth programs

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NYC mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia on early education, youth programs

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NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams on early education, youth programs

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Two-Soiled, a poem by Aly Moosa, 17

"I am two-soiled, raised in an overhaul of two lands, too rooted in two ideologies, a star crossed catastrophe, a game of tug of war, but the only war is within me." View more from the project: https://ckbe.at/3ubQHjm

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Crotona Academy song

Nearly five hours after Crotona Academy students performed this song to protest their school's closure, an oversight board voted to shutter it. https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/04/26/bronx-transfer-school-is-shuttered-after-late-night-vote-a-first-for-chancellor-carranza/

Bronx students speak out at DOE

Grace Dodge campus students begin their march to DOE

Grace Dodge campus students walk out

At the Grace Dodge campus in the Bronx where students are expected to walk out and march to DOE offices to call for alternative discipline approaches.

Inside Chalkbeat: Carvalho Chaos

On Wednesday, New York City had a new chancellor of schools. By Thursday afternoon, everything was turned upside down. In this episode of Inside Chalkbeat, we talk with Christina Veiga to learn what happened, why the drama might not have been a surprise, and where the nation's largest school system goes from here. For all of our coverage regarding the Carvalho chaos, check out this link: http://ckbe.at/2FePku1 Got a tip or a question you'd like Chalkbeat to answer? Email [email protected].

Meet your host for the Great American Teach-Off!

The event's host, Chicago Tonight's Brandis Friedman, stops by to discuss her role, Chicago Public Schools, and her favorite teachers.

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Chalkbeat launched in 2013 to address an alarming collision: the business model for news was collapsing during a period of dramatic upheaval in American education. In particular, local news faced an existential threat just as public education — which is inherently local — was undergoing transformation in how schools were governed, funded, and assigned students.

Six years later, Chalkbeat is one of the largest nonprofit news organizations in America, reporting on the most critical topics in education across seven states. We have published thousands of stories and spurred real-world changes in every state where we operate, from the shuttering of a flagrantly mismanaged virtual school in Indiana to the abolishment of a high-school admissions method in New York City that penalized low-income families. We’ve won 60 local and national journalism awards and mobilized 1,345 donors and sponsors to support our work.

While Chalkbeat has expanded, the local news crisis has accelerated, leaving Chalkbeat with a formidable challenge: We are chasing growing demand for high-quality local education news at a time when resources for news have never been more scarce.

The task is daunting, but our unique model — a nonprofit newsroom covering a single topic in multiple locations — represents a promising path forward. By accepting the economics of the internet and using them to our advantage, we have mobilized new and diverse sources of support for an essential public good. We’ve reimagined what local news can be as we’ve rebuilt it, elevating a subject that was previously a stepping-stone beat for rookie reporters, treating readers as partners, and focusing exclusively on the education story that matters most: the almost 30 million children in America who live near or below the poverty line.