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President Trump said he would move oversight of services for students with disabilities to Health and Human Services. Ad...
22/03/2025

President Trump said he would move oversight of services for students with disabilities to Health and Human Services. Advocates worry the agency doesn’t have the staff or expertise to handle the change.

NYC schools have yet to send out a citywide response to Trump’s Education Department executive order, but some officials...
21/03/2025

NYC schools have yet to send out a citywide response to Trump’s Education Department executive order, but some officials told parents Friday they were standing firm.

The Trump Education Department says changes to the Office for English Language Acquisition will not affect funding or fe...
21/03/2025

The Trump Education Department says changes to the Office for English Language Acquisition will not affect funding or federal programs for students. But experts and others worry that the quality of their education and training for their teachers could suffer.

The U.S. will struggle to maintain an effective response to a future H5N1 epidemic unless schools are made as "pandemic ...
21/03/2025

The U.S. will struggle to maintain an effective response to a future H5N1 epidemic unless schools are made as "pandemic proof" as possible.

President Donald Trump said closing the Education Department would help students and save money. Legally, only Congress ...
20/03/2025

President Donald Trump said closing the Education Department would help students and save money. Legally, only Congress can close the department. But the Trump administration recently cut the Education Department's staff nearly in half.

Eric Adams visited a Bronx elementary school to promote a program that adds mental health clinics to schools. But the ma...
20/03/2025

Eric Adams visited a Bronx elementary school to promote a program that adds mental health clinics to schools. But the mayor’s budget doesn’t include funding for it.

At Charles Drew High School near Atlanta, a new program supports students who are caring for children or sick relatives.
20/03/2025

At Charles Drew High School near Atlanta, a new program supports students who are caring for children or sick relatives.

West Side High School teacher El Houcin Houssam, the Essex County 2024-25 teacher of the year, shared his favorite lesso...
20/03/2025

West Side High School teacher El Houcin Houssam, the Essex County 2024-25 teacher of the year, shared his favorite lesson to teach, his own experience as an English language learner, and more.

Through Artist Youth Entrepreneurs, a pilot program at the High School of Art and Design, students are learning about ke...
19/03/2025

Through Artist Youth Entrepreneurs, a pilot program at the High School of Art and Design, students are learning about key legal and financial concepts in artistic fields.

Five years after the pandemic closed schools, some educators still long for before times.
18/03/2025

Five years after the pandemic closed schools, some educators still long for before times.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is terminating a $505,000 STEM grant that was supposed to support an ‘Inclusive Exce...
18/03/2025

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is terminating a $505,000 STEM grant that was supposed to support an ‘Inclusive Excellence initiative’running through 2028.

School boards are political war zones, technology is everywhere, and school feels optional. One student said the pandemi...
18/03/2025

School boards are political war zones, technology is everywhere, and school feels optional. One student said the pandemic's fallout left kids “without the tools to cope.”

“It's hard sometimes to distinguish test prep from genuine instruction, but this really looks a lot like test prep,” one...
18/03/2025

“It's hard sometimes to distinguish test prep from genuine instruction, but this really looks a lot like test prep,” one expert said.

New York City’s Education Department has consistently failed to comply with a nearly decade-old law mandating free menst...
17/03/2025

New York City’s Education Department has consistently failed to comply with a nearly decade-old law mandating free menstrual products in school bathrooms, a lawsuit alleges.

There are fun ways to mark this milestone that don’t include caricaturing elderly people
17/03/2025

There are fun ways to mark this milestone that don’t include caricaturing elderly people

In Year One, she takes listeners beyond 'colorful classroom decor and perfectly curated lesson plans'
17/03/2025

In Year One, she takes listeners beyond 'colorful classroom decor and perfectly curated lesson plans'

Join local teachers and education leaders to explore what teacher job satisfaction looks like in New York and identify s...
16/03/2025

Join local teachers and education leaders to explore what teacher job satisfaction looks like in New York and identify strategies that have the strongest potential to improve their morale. RSVP: ckbe.at/43nCEvr

What does teacher job satisfaction look like in New York? What strategies have the strongest potential to improve their ...
15/03/2025

What does teacher job satisfaction look like in New York? What strategies have the strongest potential to improve their morale? Sign up for this free, in-person event and learn more about how you can move the needle on teacher morale. RSVP: ckbe.at/43nCEvr

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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.