This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

This chair gives half-worn clothes a home www.theverge.com/tech/895194/...

As a kid in Houston: - Houston Ship Channel - NASA - Blue Bell Ice Cream For my kids in Denver: - National Western Stock Show

The Tennessee House passed a bill that would collect immigration information about students. A competing version in the Senate would charge those children tuition. Both bills are intended to tee up a Plyler challenge. www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...

Reminds me of a guy I heard tell a judge he didn't need a lawyer "because this is all just a big misunderstanding." My friend. If this truly was a big misunderstanding, you need a lawyer even more than the guilty guy.

More American students attend private school, but they participate in the testing that fuels the nation's report card at very low rates. This data gap could become "the dog that ate the homework." www.chalkbeat.org/2026/03/13/l...

Chicago names three finalists for its schools CEO position. www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026...

This blanket screen ban in schools thing is really taking off, isn’t it? Talk about whistling past the graveyard. The perfect example of how we refuse to tackle any of our difficult problems and instead blame schools and push half-assed solutions that won’t fix the fundamental issues.

This is delightful and perfect and I'm still not going to remember which is which the next time there's a watch or a warning.

I wonder if Peters could consistently show this remorse through a week of public appearances before audiences who believe the 2020 election was stolen.

We want to hear your thoughts on homework. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/03/09/c...

Important, shoe-leather work that shows many aspects of this woman's story are documented and credible. It doesn't prove her account with Trump, but it reflects a credible narrative.

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent." But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

Missouri officials directed county election administrators to make voters temporarily unable to vote if they were flagged as potential noncitizens by a federal tool. But in hundreds of cases, the tool's determinations were wrong.

Do this. In my case I still had immunity, and it provided some peace of mind. But if I had needed to get re-vaxxed, I could have.

Deported without his hearing aids.

I have done a few things that I would not want to become public if I ran for public office. And I would try very hard to remember all of them before I made a decision about running for office. Because they would become public. But I do not have any Nazi tattoos.

The conservative majority’s opinion in Mirabelli v. Bonta favors parental rights. But it leaves schools a lot of tricky questions about the right course of action when it comes to students and gender identity.

In the grand scheme of things, we could do a lot worse than a bunch of teenagers descending on a state park on a gorgeous spring day.

Funny story: When I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, the country had only recently adopted daylight savings time. The people in my village just changed the time of church and school so it was the same time by the sun as it had been before daylight savings time.

Some Colorado lawmakers and education officials say more guardrails are needed after a public education co-op opened Colorado’s “first public Christian school” last summer.

LAUSD board places Carvalho on administrative leave, names acting superintendent LEARN MORE: bit.ly/3N8zBBF

But it’s unclear what practical effect Mayor Mike Johnston’s order will have on Denver Public Schools, which is debating its own policy to bar ICE agents from school property without a warrant

You hear about woke teachers indoctrinating kids, and the stuff my kids come home with is "Ms. C said Joe Rogan is more reliable than CNN" or "Mr. K said folic acid is bad for you."

New- I spoke with political scientist Vlad Kogan about his provocative new book "No Adult Left Behind." He argues that the politics of public education privilege the interest of adults over students. I tried to pressure test his arguments in this Q&A. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/no-adult-l...

I never had one until last year and then we ate them for as long as they were in the stores and now they are back and it is all we are eating.

Everything about this story is awful from start to finish. A blind man who doesn't speak English gets lost, Buffalo police tase and arrest him, he's handed over to Border Patrol, and they leave him on the far side of town. Now he's dead. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

FBI raids Los Angeles Unified offices and the home of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. Not much additional information at this point. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Another victim of online sleuths who were certain they had cracked the case: “I feel like someone’s taken my name,” said Dominic Evans, an elementary-school teacher who was accused on social media of being the ski-masked man at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep.

I've now read five different outlets on the State of the Union, and I'm disturbed that no one has described the degree to which he singled out and targeted the Somali American community. Maybe "normal" for Trump, but it should not be "normal" for a State of the Union.

"Everything you see here, it could happen to another person again.” In a small town in a conservative corner of Colorado, high school students protect the stories of Amache, one of 10 Japanese American incarceration sites. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/02/19/s...

"just 2 percent of all college students—including 3 percent of Republicans—say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views" ‼ www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

I feel so validated by this story. I was covering Denver City Council when they approved this project, and I literally can't drive past it without saying, "We paid $14 million for that!" My kids are like, "Mom, enough already about the sign." denverite.com/2026/02/23/d...

I love our mail elections. So glad to see a bipartisan effort to make sure voters get their ballots, but it will be really sad if they need to turn to FedEx or UPS to deliver them.

For more than 153 years, The Boston Globe has printed a daily newspaper despite tech issues, pandemics or weather But in an unprecedented decision, "executives determined that the conditions during Monday’s blizzard made it impossible to print and deliver a paper Tuesday morning"

This. People love to dance on the grave of local journalism — even in the quotes of this thread! — but it's just objectively worse if no one is paying any attention.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

NBC reports the DOJ is abandoning the failed attempt to indict Rep Jason Crow (D-CO) and other Democrats who reminded service members that they do not have to follow illegal orders www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The piecemeal dismantling of the Education Department continues. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/02/23/e...

Chuck Schumer's guest at the State of the Union will be the mother of a detained Bronx high school student. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

I wonder sometimes about the difference between teaching values or virtues and social and emotional learning.

Those handheld lemon pies that come in a box at the gas station. Hostess or, even better, JJ's. Road trip staple.

Just saw 100+ comment thread in a Facebook moms group of people losing their minds about Lifetouch. "I'm pulling my kid out and not sending them back until they cancel this contract!" We'll engage in that level of panic but do nothing about people who actually hurt kids.

JOB OPENING Civic News Company is hiring a story editor to edit Chalkbeat and Votebeat. Preference for candidates in the western time zones. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Making this tonight. Really tasty - you can dial up the heat or turn it down - it's easy at the end of a long week but feels special enough for Shabbat. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022...

It's not often that I'll hold up TABOR as a model for anything, but when Colorado takes in revenue above the cap, they don't try to figure out where every dollar came from. They just cut us all checks.

The kindergarten teacher said the parents seemed nice enough but she could see in the school records they were born in other countries.

Finally got approved for my neighborhood parking permit. Only took 3 months and 3 tries and 3 additional documents. This was a renewal. Of a car registered to our home address. And registered to a driver whose license has the same home address. To park on a public street.

This seems like a really poor way to treat someone. City trying to fill its budget hole by kicking out the swan boat guy so they can rent out their own swan boats. denverite.com/2026/02/18/d...

This remains the most confusing contradiction in the MAGA coalition.