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3 weeks ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Erica Meltzer |Max Lubbers |Ann Schimke |Melanie Asmar
Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.The U.S. Department of Education is giving state education agencies 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in any practices that the administration believes illegally promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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3 weeks ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Max Lubbers |Ann Schimke |Melanie Asmar |Aleksandra Appleton
P.S. Weekly is a student-produced podcast that casts light on important issues in the nation's largest school system. The Bell's team of 10 student producers who come from different public high schools work alongside Chalkbeat NY's reporters to bring you stories, perspectives, and commentary you won't get anywhere else. Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.
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3 weeks ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Max Lubbers |Ann Schimke |Melanie Asmar |Aleksandra Appleton
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Different visions for intervention in Memphis-Shelby County Schools have emerged at the state legislature and local level. One proposal in the House would take power away from the elected school board for at least four years, giving oversight of the school district to a state-appointed board of local residents.
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4 weeks ago | 
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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4 weeks ago | 
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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4 weeks ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Liza Gross |Max Lubbers |Aleksandra Appleton |Melanie Asmar
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When catastrophic floods, fires, and hurricanes upend communities, the path of destruction they take may be random but the pain and suffering they cause is not.
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4 weeks ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Max Lubbers |Aleksandra Appleton |Melanie Asmar |Jason Gonzales
Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Tennessee lawmakers voted to advance a bill Wednesday that would allow public schools to check students’ immigration status and charge tuition to students who cannot provide proof that they are in the country legally.
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4 weeks ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Melanie Asmar |Max Lubbers |Aleksandra Appleton |Jason Gonzales
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. Keegan Hoelscher was at an assembly in the auditorium of East High School two years ago when a fellow student shot and injured two deans, a tragic incident that reignited a debate about school safety in Denver and led to big changes, including the reintroduction of school police.
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1 month ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Carly Sitrin |Alex Zimmerman |Michael Elsen-Rooney |Max Lubbers
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. When Adrienne Staten’s fellow teachers first started talking about using artificial intelligence tools in their classrooms, Staten was not on board. “AI was scary to me,” said Staten, who’s been a Philadelphia educator for 27 years.
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1 month ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Alex Zimmerman |Michael Elsen-Rooney |Max Lubbers |Reema Amin
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. New York state’s Education Department is having trouble getting reimbursed for $363 million from the federal government, according to state officials who blamed the problem on mass layoffs and other changes at the U.S. Department of Education.
