Their student was detained by ICE. Now this Bronx school is rallying to get him back. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

"He shouldn’t have had to suffer for almost three years before he was able to receive the type of help that he needs." @chalkbeat.org and @blockclubchi.bsky.social investigate whether migrant students in Chicago are getting bilingual education required by state law. www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

What a week that was ... Grateful for our talented, extremely hard-working and super well-informed team at Chalkbeat Chicago, who stepped up to give readers authoritative coverage of the shakeup at Chicago Public Schools. www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024...

Happy Giving Tuesday! Local news is a civic good and needs public support. I will be donating to news organizations I rely on to stay informed, and I hope you’ll consider a gift to Chalkbeat. Any donations today will be doubled through a matching grant. chalkbeat.fundjournalism.org/donate/?camp...

Michigan Democrats are taking aim at charter school management and financial transparency in their upcoming lame-duck session. Here's how it came to this: www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2024...

"Employee retention is always a bit of a problem at local newspapers, and The Garden Island newspaper on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is no exception." 😆

“Pretty impressive." Chicago's first school board election produced strong voter turnout, bucking national trends. www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024...

The last education secretary? Trump is expected to nominate a longtime supporter and big donor who served on the Connecticut State Board of Education for a year. www.chalkbeat.org/2024/11/20/t...

Concerns over NYC’s student data privacy proposal heightened by Trump win: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024...

The longer a district kept school buildings closed in 2021 and 2022, the less likely their students were to graduate on time — @kalynbelsha.bsky.social runs down new research on how the pandemic upended student learning. www.chalkbeat.org/2024/11/19/r...

Thank you for starting this, @nicholedobo.bsky.social! Follow these excellent education journalists, folks.

Exclusive: Documents obtained by The Post provide extensive detail about an allegation that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.

This week in book bans: One Tennessee school districts's purge is starting to be imitated by other districts and could serve as a template. Goodbye Dr. Seuss and Toni Morrison. www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...

A federal hearing about special education teacher shortages turned into a debate about how the potential elimination of the U.S. Department of Education would affect students with disabilities. Before taking office, Trump casts a large shadow. www.chalkbeat.org/2024/11/15/t...

Ballot challenges, big money, information gaps: How Chicago’s first school board elections played out. www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024...

“Keep your hands off our school!” The Denver school board, trying to improve its community engagement, gets an earful. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...

A gut punch of an opening line in this story, quoting a parent pleading for mandatory dyslexia screening in Colorado schools: "Bri Luna said her daughter started kindergarten with the nickname 'Little Miss Sunshine' and by middle school was on antidepressants because of her reading struggles."

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee: We can do a better job distributing federal dollars than the federal government. www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...

I wrote about Promise Keepers back in the day. This quote from the new CEO - on downplaying the past emphasis on combatting racism and building relationships across racial boundaries - made me gasp: "Frankly, that’s what got Promise Keepers to begin its decline." www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/u...

It's our prime-time debut! Very cool to see Chalkbeat feature in last night's season premiere of Abbott Elementary. Be like an Emmy winner. Read all about it in Chalkbeat: www.chalkbeat.org/newsletters/

It’s Colorado Gives Day! Please consider donating to @ChalkbeatCO. Your gift not only makes our work covering education in our community possible, it says you believe in the role a strong and independent press plays in upholding our democracy. www.coloradogives.org/organization...

What Fish said. Gotta drop off your ballots today, Colorado. #copolitics #edcolo

Morning. ☀️