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Jun 10, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Melanie Asmar |Laura D. Testino |Samantha Smylie |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. Hispanic students in Denver are more likely to attend schools with lower enrollment — and therefore more likely to be affected by any school closures — than white or Black students.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Hannah Dellinger |Laura D. Testino |Samantha Smylie |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. Many Michigan schools are still not being equitably funded, despite the state increasing dollars for at-risk students in recent years, according to a new analysis.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Samantha Smylie |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera |Michael Elsen-Rooney |Robyn Vincent
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. The Illinois legislative session ended with much fanfare last week — a week after it was scheduled to end. Lawmakers worked overtime to pass the state’s fiscal year 2025 budget and other outstanding legislation, including a number of education bills. While many bills gained traction at the capitol, several education bills did not pass.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Eric Weddle |Julian Shen-Berro |Melanie Asmar |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera
Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news. This story was co-published with Mirror Indy and WFYI. Grace Martin, a tutor at Vision Academy charter school in Indianapolis, teaches the alphabet.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Julian Shen-Berro |Melanie Asmar |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera |Reema Amin
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. As New York grapples with a teacher shortage, state education officials are debating additional paths to becoming certified — including options beyond obtaining a master’s degree. Under current regulations, educators must obtain their master’s degree within five years of entering the classroom.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Reema Amin |Jacob Steimer |Aleksandra Appleton |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. During Femi Skanes’ 10 years as a Chicago principal, her boss was primarily a district official known as a network chief, she said. Alan Mather, who was also a principal for a decade, says he answered to then-Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan. Many principals in Chicago also feel their Local School Council, or LSC, is a boss, while others view the council as more of a partner.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Jacob Steimer |Aleksandra Appleton |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera |Sydney Dauphinais
This story was originally published by MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Subscribe to their newsletter here. Dre Jones remembers watching his wife cry in the passenger seat of his GMC Envoy as they drove their 4-year-old son the 70 miles from their Dyersburg home to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. He can still see the inside of the emergency department and smell the alcohol swab the nurse used to prepare his son’s hand for an IV.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Aleksandra Appleton |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera |Sydney Dauphinais |Xandra Harbet
Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news. Indiana House lawmakers have amended a Senate bill focused on chronic absenteeism to require school districts to prohibit habitually truant students from participating in extracurricular activities.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Sydney Dauphinais |Xandra Harbet |Marta W. Aldrich |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Gov. Phil Murphy plans to propose $11.6 billion in state aid for New Jersey’s public schools in his fiscal year 2025 budget address Tuesday — a historic investment that would, for the first time, fully fund K-12 schools, according to an advance excerpt of his speech.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Marta W. Aldrich |Julian Shen-Berro |Melanie Asmar |Jessie GómezandCatherine Carrera
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Tennesseans got their first glimpse of Gov. Bill Lee’s plan to create a universal school voucher program that could eventually give all families tax dollars to pay for private school.
