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3 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Michael Elsen-Rooney |Catherine Carrera |Samantha Smylie |Jason Gonzales

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. Leaders of New York’s City Council said Wednesday they will push Mayor Eric Adams to add roughly $800 million in education funding to the city’s final budget. Of that $800 million, roughly $280 million would go towards early childhood education, around $180 million would support CUNY, and the remainder would go to K-12 schools, according to budget documents.

3 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Catherine Carrera |Samantha Smylie |Jason Gonzales |Michael Elsen-Rooney

Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to get the latest news about the city’s public school system delivered to your inbox. As Newark residents prepare to vote on April 15 to fill three seats on the Board of Education election, Chalkbeat Newark has put together a guide so voters can learn more about the candidates. The guide includes what each candidate says about who they are, where they stand on key issues, and why they should be elected.

4 weeks ago | nj.com | Catherine Carrera |Chalkbeat Newark

Editor’s note: This story was shared as part of a content-sharing agreement between Mosaic.NJ.com and Chalkbeat. You can follow them on Facebook and Twitter (or X). El Houcin Houssam was always fascinated by mathematics and thought he would take his number skills into the financial services industry. But it turned out it wasn’t the business of numbers that fascinated him.

1 month ago | chalkbeat.org | Alex Zimmerman |Lori Higgins |Allen Siegler |Catherine Carrera

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. Mayor Eric Adams visited P.S. 35 in the Bronx this week to tout the school’s new on-site mental health clinic — one of 16 schools that added them over the past year through a multi-agency program. The mental health clinics are “a place to learn coping skills and resilience without financial burden,” Adams said, flanked by top health and education officials.

1 month ago | chalkbeat.org | Lori Higgins |Allen Siegler |Catherine Carrera |Samantha Smylie

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. A first-of-its-kind report says Michigan’s K-12 school buildings need $23 billion of work over the next decade — a dire situation that some superintendents said should prompt urgent policy discussions at the state level. A large chunk of that dollar amount, $10.9 billion, is for basic needs such as repairing HVAC systems and roofing.