Erica Meltzer
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National Editor at Chalkbeat. I write about education and politics. Reach me at
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An email sheds light on why Denver Superintendent Alex Marrero might be looking for a new job â he feels micromanaged and disrespected. I do wonder, though. Is it really not a legitimate concern of the elected board how the district approaches reading instruction?
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Denver Superintendent Alex Marrero tells school board he âcan no longer ignore these concernsâ
An email from Marrero to the school board president could shed light on why heâs looking to leave Denver for another job.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2026/06/26/alex-marrero-sends-email-listing-concerns-with-denver-school-board/
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The sample does not contain enough Jews, Muslims or members of other relatively small U.S. religious groups to allow their opinions to be reported separately.
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Many Americans favor prayer in public schools, but few think it should be mandatory
Americans are almost equally split on whether the Ten Commandments should be displayed in public school classrooms. But Republicans, White evangelicals and older Americans are more supportive than oth...
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/06/22/many-americans-favor-prayer-in-public-schools-but-few-think-it-should-be-mandatory/
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Ending private right of action would be a big deal. And hard to square with the history of the Voting Rights Act.
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The extra funds have been a lifeline for shrinking schools. But some fiscal watchdogs say the city canât sustain the expense of holding schools harmless.
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NYC to spend $290 million holding school budgets steady for enrollment losses this year
The extra funds have been a lifeline for shrinking schools. But some fiscal watchdogs say the city canât sustain the expense of holding schools harmless.
https://bit.ly/3QWYx0U
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Matt Sebastian
4 days ago
"The two major reservoirs on the Colorado River face dire outlooks that will likely spur federal officials to restrict the amount of water flowing downstream â and decrease hydropower generation â in the coming months, even after they ordered recent emergency measures."
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Colorado River system continues slide toward crash, despite emergency actions sending water to Lake Powell
âThe political incentives to fight for the most favorable outcomes for individual states and water users must be overcome by the necessity of preventing a Colorado River system crash.â
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/06/21/colorado-river-system-crash-drought-lake-powell/
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The Denver Post
5 days ago
PHOTOS: Juneteenth Music Festival and Parade in Denver on Saturday, June 20, 2026.
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PHOTOS: Juneteenth Music Festival and Parade in Denver on Saturday, June 20, 2026.
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/06/20/juneteenth-music-festival-and-parade-denver-saturday-june-20-2026/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-denverpost.com&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202606216a352f41c92c3e13d9826f02
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Merlin does not appear to recognize the backyard chicken as a bird.
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Ryan (Ry) Warner
7 days ago
Thinking of Clara Brown and Barney Ford today. These two Coloradans â formerly enslavedâ made a life for themselves here and contributed to others. Their stained-glass portraits are both in the state Capitol.
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Lynn was incredibly kind and helpful to me when I started covering the Colorado legislature and politics. And yes, she never stopped loving a good tip. Gone too soon. May her memory be a blessing.
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This is a great speech but I wonder if Jalen Brunson ever gets tired of people bringing up his height.
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8 days ago
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"People of certain regions, such as Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, prefer their mate in different types of vessels and prepared certain ways, which can be a cultural identifier when those fans meet up at a friendly match." Nothing technically incorrect there. I'm just dying a little.
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Kyle Clark
8 days ago
Joe Oltmann, MAGA podcaster and close friend of Colorado GOP Gov candidate Scott Bottoms, said today: âI think violence is going to be necessary⊠I think we know who our targets are. And there are targets.â
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Matt Sebastian
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Children's Hospital Colorado says it's complying with state Supreme Court order to resume gender-affirming care, but none of its doctors will write prescriptions, fearing prosecution by Trump administration. Attorney who sued on behalf of transgender kids says hospital is "trying to play games"
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Doctors at Childrenâs Hospital Colorado wonât provide gender-affirming care, fearing federal retaliation
The doctors at Childrenâs Hospital are employees of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the hospital canât force them to provide specific services, an official said.
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/06/17/childrens-hospital-colorado-gender-affirming-care/
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In fact, everyone does not make this mistake. I do not make this mistake.
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The One Surprising Mistake Everyone Makes With Pancakes
And itâs easy to fix.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/article/pancake-mistakes-cooking-tips?eafs_enabled=false
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In moving special education oversight out of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon had a message for parents: "I've heard you." That might be true, said parents and advocates who talked to her, but she didn't listen.
www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/17/p...
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Parents oppose plan to shift special education oversight: âWe didn't want this to happen'
Education Secretary Linda McMahon told parents in a video announcing seismic shifts to special education and civil rights enforcement that âIâve heard you.â Parents say that might be true, but that sh...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/17/parents-disability-advocates-react-to-federal-special-education-changes/
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Love this
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Anjali Dayal
12 days ago
look I realize Iâm a New Yorker but separately on a deep spiritual level I also understand futzing around for the first three quarters and realizing all of a sudden you have to show up for the fourth
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Walked the dog last night after the Knicks won, and there was one lone guy playing basketball at the park, in the dark. Heard the ball again at 8 a.m. Not saying people weren't playing basketball before! But there is something about a championship that makes people head for the nearest court.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
13 days ago
A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.
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Phil Lewis
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A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery âand climate change that it â had removed from âparks and monuments nationwide
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Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules
A federal judge ordered the âTrump administration on âFriday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on âtopics like slavery âand climate change that it â had removed from âparks and monuments nationw...
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-must-restore-history-science-materials-parks-us-judge-rules-2026-06-12/
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In finding that Jeffco Public Schools violated Title IX, the Trump administration said they found 61 boys playing on girls' teams. The district says these were trainers, managers â and mascots.
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61 boys the Trump administration found on girlsâ sports rosters? District says they werenât athletes
Jeffco Public Schools said some girlsâ teams âhad male managers, trainers, or mascots â not athletes.â
https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2026/06/12/61-boys-on-jeffco-girls-sports-rosters-were-mascots-managers-trainers/
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Alright. đ”đŸ ÂĄVamos albirroja! đ”đŸ
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Contrary to comments made last month by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, the Treasury Department says states will NOT be able to shape the tax-credit scholarship to match their priorities.
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McMahon said states would shape tax credit scholarship. Treasury said no.
Many Democratic governors have been waiting to see the rules before opting into a major federal school choice expansion. Will they like what they see?
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/11/treasury-previews-tax-credit-scholarship-rules-that-shape-school-choice/
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Frog and Toad Bot
14 days ago
âWhy are you banging your head against the wall?â asked Frog. âI hope that if I bang my head against the wall, it will help me to think of a story,â said Toad.
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If you ever needed an example of what it means for the NY Times to not be a local paper.
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People are being very mean to De'Aaron Fox tonight, but if the Knicks had lost, everyone would be saying the same stuff about Josh Hart. Instead nobody's talking about it. Sometimes you fuck up. How'd you do at your job this week?
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âI think sports can be a grief ritual,â Erica Hill, the owner of Sparrow, said. âMaybe there are people coming because they always watched the Knicks with their person and their person isnât here.â
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Joseph Cox
16 days ago
Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/
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There's a bit of unraveling happening with Education reEnvisioned, the controversial Colorado education cooperative that approved a "public Christian school" and dramatically expanded homeschool enrichment programs.
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Colorado group that started controversial âpublic Christian schoolâ faces membership loss
The Monument-based group that started the controversial Riverstone Academy lost one of its school district members Tuesday and could lose the other one by the end of June.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2026/06/10/education-group-erboces-that-launched-public-christian-school-loses-support/
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More on how Chicago Public Schools CEO Macquline King handled the questioning, from my new Chalkbeat colleague
@makseminera.bsky.social
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Congressional Republicans interrogated three progressive superintendents during a lengthy hearing that included a demand for the Chicago schools CEO to specify which abortion method she prefers and a "yes it does/no it doesn't" debate about what Title IX requires.
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âIâm very disturbed by that questionâ: Capitol Hill hearing with superintendents leans into culture war
Since the start of the second Trump administration, Republican officials have zeroed in on school districts that they believe are violating federal law and parentsâ rights. On Wednesday, members of Co...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/10/superintendents-defend-transgender-student-parent-rights-policy-to-congress/
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Among the sites whose history Americans want to preserve were Japanese American incarceration sites such as Amache in southeast Colorado. I wrote about the students protecting those stories amid uncertain times for the National Park Service.
www.chalkbeat.org/2026/02/19/s...
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The Denver Post
16 days ago
The Trump administration last year issued a plea to visitors at U.S. national parks: Report any displays or exhibits saying ânegativeâ things about Americans living in the past or present. But most people who responded instead weighed in to criticize the effort itself
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A Trump order asked national park visitors to flag ânegativeâ historical info. They had other ideas
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/06/10/trump-administration-removes-negative-national-park-exhibits/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-denverpost.com&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202606106a29df19ad2cb44df9707495
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Matt Barnum
16 days ago
There seems to be a bit of confusion about this, but the federal tax credit scholarship program has *always* explicitly allowed the funding to go towards public school students.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/u...
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Trump Law Would Also Direct Voucher Money to Public Schools
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/national-education-vouchers-private-school.html
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New long-term trend data from NAEP out today suggests maybe â maybe â the long COVID hangover is coming to end. But there are still lots of cause for concern about American students' learning.
www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/10/n...
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One group of students is making progress. The other doesnât have much time left.
New NAEP scores reveal a telling divide between younger and older students when it comes to reading and math.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/10/new-naep-scores-show-older-students-struggling-in-reading-and-math/
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Cara Jackson
16 days ago
âStudentsâ experiences are at the very least context for the scores that we observe.â
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One group of students is making progress. The other doesnât have much time left.
New NAEP scores reveal a telling divide between younger and older students when it comes to reading and math.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/10/new-naep-scores-show-older-students-struggling-in-reading-and-math/
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AkivaMCohen
17 days ago
That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion â a quarter of a trillion.
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Our dog is now old enough that squirrels eyeball her and decide they have nothing to worry about.
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17 days ago
The share of teacher preparation programs fully aligned with the science of reading has doubled, the National Council on Teacher Quality reported. But that leaves hundreds that are falling short, and many programs declined to participate in NCTQâs study.
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A new report on teacher prep and reading instruction has both good news and bad news
The share of teacher preparation programs fully aligned with the science of reading has doubled, the National Council on Teacher Quality reported. But that leaves hundreds that are falling short, and many programs declined to participate in NCTQâs study.
https://bit.ly/4uoEari
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"Ms. Woods said the transmission tower is near the headquarters for the WWE in Stamford. Video posted by News 12 Connecticut showed the flag outside the headquarters catching fire on power lines." There's an education angle to everything.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/n...
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Huge American Flag Flies Into Power Lines, Knocking Out Power for Thousands
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/nyregion/american-flag-power-outages-connecticut.html?smid=bs-share
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I wanted to go with Tucson (and for context, I live in Denver, which is also a champion in this field) but really every entry in this thread is correct.
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18 days ago
The U.S. Department of Education alleged that Cherry Creek district allows students to be excluded from clubs or assigned to certain classes based on race, but didnât provide details.
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Trump administration investigates Cherry Creek district over alleged racial discrimination
The U.S. Department of Education alleged that Cherry Creek district allows students to be excluded from clubs or assigned to certain classes based on race, but didnât provide details.
https://bit.ly/4uoTWSO
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Alex Zimmerman
19 days ago
New: NYC schools will not face cuts to their initial budgets this year even if they enroll fewer students â continuing a pandemic-era "hold harmless" policy
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NYC school budgets wonât face cuts next year (for now) despite falling enrollment
NYC schools wonât see their budgets cut next year, even if theyâre projected to have fewer students. Kamar Samuels said extending the âhold harmless" policy aims to provide stability.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026/06/07/nyc-school-budgets-hold-harmless-extended-despite-enrollment-drops-2026/
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Entry No. 584 in doctors in rich countries have no idea when they're looking at a common tropical disease.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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Medical Mysteries: After decades of pelvic pain and 100-plus doctor visits, one question changed it all
Jabbing pangs and constant headaches followed him for years, but the blood tests always came back normal â until one day a specialist thought to ask something new.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/06/06/medical-mystery-after-decades-pelvic-pain-100-doctor-visits-one-question-changed-everything/
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
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Really donât know where to put my feelings about this We Black women never get a moment of guaranteed peace, safety, and care
www.koat.com/article/form...
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Jury awards millions to Star Trek star's family in death lawsuit
The family of Star Trek's Lt. Uhura won $13 million in a lawsuit alleging Gila Medical Center in Silver City badly mishandled Nichelle Nichols' care.
https://www.koat.com/article/former-star-trek-star-nichelle-nichols-family-suing-silver-city-medical-center/71499239
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www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...
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Marjane Satrapi, Artist and Author of âPersepolis,â Dies at 56
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/world/middleeast/marjane-satrapi-dead.html
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Anne Lutz Fernandez
21 days ago
Showing up at board meetings and communicating with school leaders matter: "Board members believe that their top prioritiesâsuch as safety and academic performanceâalign with the top priorities of their communities but diverge from the top priorities of the most vocal members of their communities."
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A survey of America's school board members | Brookings
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-survey-of-americas-school-board-members/
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I'm going to do my best to make stupific a thing. Truly a word for our times.
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As immigration enforcement activity and protests at the Newark-based detention facility continue, educators say schools can play a role in ensuring students and families feel safe.
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Newark schools should reassure student safety amid ongoing clashes at Delaney Hall, educators say
As immigration enforcement activity and protests at the Newark-based detention facility continue, educators say schools can play a role in ensuring students and families feel safe.
https://bit.ly/4oj3YDO
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