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Jul 19, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Tonyaa Weathersbee |Becky Vevea |Hannah Dellinger |Brendan Rose
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with Memphis-Shelby County Schools and statewide education policy. Frank Johnson, the South Memphis activist who represents District 7 on the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board, ended his election campaign to stay on the board, midway through the early-voting period.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Becky Vevea |Hannah Dellinger |Brendan Rose |Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. The head of Chicago’s largest high school charter network is stepping down after six years on the job. Noble Schools CEO Constance Jones announced in an email to staff and families that she will “pass the torch to a new leader” and work with the network’s board and an outside consultant to find a new CEO.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Hannah Dellinger |Brendan Rose |Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. Michigan education officials this month asked the U.S. Department of Education to dismiss all claims that the state violated the federal rights of students with disabilities during COVID-era school shutdowns.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Brendan Rose
In the summer after middle school, George begged his mom to drive him to Lower Manhattan from their home in Brooklyn, so that he could walk around Stuyvesant High School, a massive 10-story building along the Hudson River. He gazed up at it, trying to imagine what it would be like to go to one of New York City’s most prestigious institutions. “I had this idea in my head of what Stuyvesant would be like,” he said, recalling that summer three years ago.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
brooklyneagle.com | Brendan Rose |Ella Napack
Student protesters on Columbia University’s campus entered and took over Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning. Dozens of demonstrators brought in metal gates and furniture to barricade the building’s doors, while hundreds gathered in front of the historic building in support.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
chalkbeat.org | Marta W. Aldrich |Hannah Dellinger |Brendan Rose |Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Memphis-Shelby County Schools and statewide education policy. After failing to reach contract terms with its first choice to run its growing private school voucher program, Tennessee has turned to a young Indiana company with a small staff, modest cash flow, and no state-level experience managing education savings accounts.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
untappedcities.com | Brendan Rose
In the face of a crisis, one architect built a generation of amazing school buildings, changing the lives of thousands of New York City students. But his design philosophy did not last, raising the question: Why do some New York City schools look like cathedrals and others look like prisons? The tall Gothic towers of the Erasmus Hall buildings stand in stark contrast to the bustling storefronts of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.
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Apr 21, 2023 | 
chalkbeat.org | Marta W. Aldrich |Hannah Dellinger |Brendan Rose |Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization covering public education in communities across America. Sign up for our free Tennessee newsletter to keep up with the Shelby County public school system and state education policy. Tennessee’s legislature raced Thursday to complete its business early for the year while refusing to take up gun reform legislation from Republican Gov. Bill Lee or Democratic lawmakers, three weeks after a mass shooting at a Nashville school.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
chalkbeat.org | Marta W. Aldrich |Hannah Dellinger |Brendan Rose |Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Hundreds of angry protesters, most of them high school students, flooded inside Tennessee’s Capitol Thursday calling for stricter gun laws after an armed intruder killed three children and three adults days earlier at a small private school in Nashville. Chanting “Save our kids!” and “Not one more!” protesters gathered outside of legislative chambers where lawmakers were in session and could hear the students’ shouts reverberating from the Capitol rotunda.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
chalkbeat.org | Marta W. Aldrich |Hannah Dellinger |Brendan Rose |Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization covering public education in communities across America. Subscribe to our free Tennessee newsletter to keep up with the Shelby County public school system and state education policy. When House Speaker Cameron Sexton recently floated the idea of Tennessee rejecting U.S. education dollars to free its schools from federal rules and restrictions, he made the pivot sound as simple as making up the difference with $1.8 billion in state funds.
