
Gabrielle Birkner
Story Editor at Chalkbeat
features editor @chalkbeat; co-founder @modernloss; @harpercollins author; mom of 2; telling stories that matter; keeping it real, even in hollywood.
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2 weeks ago |
chalkbeat.org | Michael Elsen-Rooney |Jessie Gomez |Melissa Brown |Gabrielle Birkner
Beyond High School is our free monthly newsletter covering higher education policy and practices in Colorado. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox early. Daniela Ibarra is one of the more than seven million students nationwide who rely on free federal money to go to college.
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2 weeks ago |
chalkbeat.org | Gabrielle Birkner
Speaking from the graduation stage, Kimberly Hernandez told the crowd in Los Angeles’ historic Wilshire Ebell Theatre how honored she was to stand before them “not just as a graduate but as the proud child of immigrant parents.”It was an honor she shared with many of her classmates at Los Angeles High School’s commencement ceremony Monday afternoon.
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Mar 29, 2025 |
the74million.org | Gabrielle Birkner
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter During the pandemic, Chalkbeat published dozens of essays that spoke to the tumult of COVID-era teaching. Lindsay Klemas wrote about teaching on Zoom while caring for a toddler. Canwen Xu recounted what it was like to be a first-year educator at the height of COVID.
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Mar 27, 2025 |
chalkbeat.org | Jessie Gomez |Liza Gross |Gabrielle Birkner |Max Lubbers
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to get the latest news about the city’s public school system delivered to your inbox. The Newark Board of Education has approved a $1.57 billion budget for the upcoming school year with increased funding in salaries, school renovations, andcharter school payments while budgeting conservatively in light of potential changes to federal funding. The 2025-26 school year budget approved Wednesday is a slight increase from last year’s $1.51 billion budget.
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Mar 27, 2025 |
chalkbeat.org | Gabrielle Birkner |Liza Gross |Max Lubbers |Aleksandra Appleton
During the pandemic, Chalkbeat published dozens of essays that spoke to the tumult of COVID-era teaching. Lindsay Klemas wrote about teaching on Zoom while caring for a toddler. Canwen Xu recounted what it was like to be a first-year educator at the height of COVID. Walt Stallings wrote about the particular vulnerability of substitutes during school closures, and George Farmer discussed the challenge of building parent-teacher relationships from a distance.
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