Shamima Ahmed

Jun 12, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Michael Elsen-Rooney |Aleksandra Appleton |Hannah Dellinger |Shamima Ahmed

New York City is set to receive $27 million to combat youth vaping as part of a settlement stemming from a lawsuit against e-cigarette giant Juul, state Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday. James led a multistate lawsuit against Juul in 2019 for deceptive marketing targeting youth and won a $462 million settlement.

Jun 12, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Aleksandra Appleton |Hannah Dellinger |Shamima Ahmed |Laura D. Testino

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. Elley Kropp wasn’t sure at first if her family would approve of her becoming a teacher. She knew she might make more money as a nurse or a cosmetologist. And she had faced challenges in school; in the eighth grade she was diagnosed with learning disabilities.

Jun 12, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Hannah Dellinger |Shamima Ahmed |Laura D. Testino |Yesenia Robles

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. The Michigan State Board of Education on Tuesday called for a comprehensive independent review of the Oxford High School mass shooting at the request of the parents of the four teens shot to death by a student in 2021. The board passed a resolution that asks the legislature to fund a review of officials’ response to the shootings.

Jun 12, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Shamima Ahmed

First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education. The writer of this essay is a 2023-24 Student Voices Fellow at Chalkbeat. Click to learn more about our high school fellowship program. When I was younger, I’d walked past “expensive buildings” in Manhattan and couldn’t fathom being allowed inside. These lavish skyscrapers represented what felt out of reach for me — money, success, fitting in.

Jun 4, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Mila Koumpilova |Aleksandra Appleton |Jason Gonzales |Shamima Ahmed

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Some Chicago schools excel at curbing the academic and social-emotional fallout experienced by students who live near where homicides happen, a new University of Chicago study found. The report released Tuesday by the university’s Consortium on School Research found that students living in proximity to killings tend to lose ground academically in the aftermath.