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As some schools have been waiting several weeks for student OMNY card replacements, families and educators worry about m...
28/02/2025

As some schools have been waiting several weeks for student OMNY card replacements, families and educators worry about migrant students with non-working cards.

The program matches 100,000 young people ages 14-24 with paid job opportunities across New York City.
28/02/2025

The program matches 100,000 young people ages 14-24 with paid job opportunities across New York City.

“I let a lot of casual racism slide, even until middle school, because I didn’t have anyone to look up to or tell me tha...
27/02/2025

“I let a lot of casual racism slide, even until middle school, because I didn’t have anyone to look up to or tell me that it was wrong,” one student said. “I just had to endure it.”

The Education Department has never withheld funds as the result of a civil rights investigation. Will that remain true?
27/02/2025

The Education Department has never withheld funds as the result of a civil rights investigation. Will that remain true?

The freeze on pending cases and Trump’s calls to dismantle the Education Department left many parents worrying about the...
27/02/2025

The freeze on pending cases and Trump’s calls to dismantle the Education Department left many parents worrying about the federal government’s commitment to disabled students’ rights.

Top officials have been pushing for years to shutter P.S. 25, NYC’s smallest school with just 53 students. On Wednesday,...
27/02/2025

Top officials have been pushing for years to shutter P.S. 25, NYC’s smallest school with just 53 students. On Wednesday, education officials voted to close it.

A Dear Colleague letter threatened the federal funding of schools with a wide range of DEI practices.
26/02/2025

A Dear Colleague letter threatened the federal funding of schools with a wide range of DEI practices.

A Queens-based social and youth services organization is taking over the storied Boys and Girls Club in Crotona that clo...
26/02/2025

A Queens-based social and youth services organization is taking over the storied Boys and Girls Club in Crotona that closed last year, THE CITY reports..

A federally funded research program helped students with disabilities prepare for life after high school. DOGE’s sweepin...
26/02/2025

A federally funded research program helped students with disabilities prepare for life after high school. DOGE’s sweeping Education Department cuts brought this and dozens of other studies to an abrupt halt.

The letter, which did not directly refer to Trump or his executive orders, comes weeks after some families criticized th...
25/02/2025

The letter, which did not directly refer to Trump or his executive orders, comes weeks after some families criticized the Education Department for not issuing a systemwide statement.

The long-awaited hearing aimed to give lawmakers a chance to publicly question New York City Education Department offici...
24/02/2025

The long-awaited hearing aimed to give lawmakers a chance to publicly question New York City Education Department officials on the state of school diversity efforts.

If the Trump administration is changing how your school approaches issues like teaching, DEI, and immigration, we want t...
23/02/2025

If the Trump administration is changing how your school approaches issues like teaching, DEI, and immigration, we want to know about it. 👇

If you are having trouble viewing this form, go here: https://forms.gle/VEQjegCRM15JFX9p9 We want to understand how and whether the education-related executive actions taken by President Donald Trump are leading to change at the school and classroom level. Have you received different guidance or has...

Last year among New York families required to apply, relatively few submitted applications, according to state data.
21/02/2025

Last year among New York families required to apply, relatively few submitted applications, according to state data.

Policy shifts out of Washington have changed the reality for school leaders.
21/02/2025

Policy shifts out of Washington have changed the reality for school leaders.

If the Trump administration is changing how your school approaches issues like teaching, DEI, and immigration, we want t...
21/02/2025

If the Trump administration is changing how your school approaches issues like teaching, DEI, and immigration, we want to know about it. 👇️

If you are having trouble viewing this form, go here: https://forms.gle/VEQjegCRM15JFX9p9 We want to understand how and whether the education-related executive actions taken by President Donald Trump are leading to change at the school and classroom level. Have you received different guidance or has...

A Manhattan guidance counselor sued the Education Department for refusing to transfer her after having severe allergic r...
20/02/2025

A Manhattan guidance counselor sued the Education Department for refusing to transfer her after having severe allergic reactions to conditions at her school.

Chris Rufo tagged DOGE on examples of 'left-wing ideologies' in education. Within a day, millions in grants had been ter...
20/02/2025

Chris Rufo tagged DOGE on examples of 'left-wing ideologies' in education. Within a day, millions in grants had been terminated.

The Senate education committee advanced Linda McMahon’s nomination for education secretary to the full Senate on a party...
20/02/2025

The Senate education committee advanced Linda McMahon’s nomination for education secretary to the full Senate on a party-line vote.

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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.