Education An integration push meets long-standing efforts to improve Brooklyn’s P.S. 676, bringing hope and fresh worrieschalkbeat.org - By Christina Veiga When it came time to enroll her grandson in school, Esther Fesale put his name in the lottery for a nearby charter. But as the summer wound down …
Tennessee Memphis schools chief looking for new ideas because ‘what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working’chalkbeat.org - By Laura Faith Kebede As someone who has been a go-to problem solver in his previous roles in Shelby County Schools, Superintendent Joris Ray says he has had a hard time …
Chicago Public Schools Free backpacks, immunizations: Here’s the list of Chicago ‘back-to-school bashes’ full of free stuffchalkbeat.org - By Cassie Walker Burke It’s become an annual back-to-school tradition: A series of bashes for families and educators hosted by Chicago Public Schools and offering free …
Colorado One of four candidates drops out of southeast Denver school board racechalkbeat.org - By Melanie Asmar One of four candidates running to represent southeast Denver on the school board has dropped out of the race after not winning the endorsement of the …
Tennessee What the 2019 National Teacher of the Year told Memphis educators must happen if they want to reduce suspensionschalkbeat.org - By Kathryn Palmer Rodney Robinson will never forget how isolated he felt as one of the few black faces at his Virginia high school. “Growing up as the smart black kid …
Education No more ‘sink-or-swim’ for new teacherschalkbeat.org - By Cassie Walker Burke [caption id="attachment_221330" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Teacher hopefuls Noor Maghrebi and Leo Sanchez take a break from teaching to pose at …
Colorado Rise & Shine: Education reform group makes school board endorsementschalkbeat.org - By Erica Meltzer Welcome to another Friday edition of Rise & Shine. We hope you've been finding a way to stay cool as we face another potential triple-digit day. Hit …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMemphis, TN Rise & Shine: ‘Crunch time’ for Memphis teachers looking for jobs, schools trying to fill vacancieschalkbeat.org - By Jacinthia Jones There's less than a month until school starts in most districts in Tennessee, and recently in Memphis, hundreds of prospective teachers flocked to a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoEducation Rise & Shine: Class hatching projects lead to hundreds of duckling deaths at school year’s endchalkbeat.org - By Sara Mosle Make way for ducklings: Owing to chick-hatching projects in city schools, hundreds of ducklings are being released into city parks where they face …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDetroit, MI Rise & Shine: What does a new charter school in southwest Detroit mean for the community?chalkbeat.org - By Imani Harris School closures can be difficult for any students, but they're particularly so for English learners who might already be struggling in school. Can a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMemphis, TN Rise & Shine: Retired Memphis teachers may face roadblocks as they return to fill job vacancieschalkbeat.org - By Erica Irish As Gov. Eric Holcomb tours the state in the first weeks of his official re-election campaign, public school teachers are coming out in force. Their …
Education No more sink or swim: How one Illinois program aims to train more resilient, longer-lasting teacherschalkbeat.org - By Yana Kunichoff Just two years out of high school, Leo Sanchez can easily recall the drowsy feeling of sitting in a Chicago classroom on a warm day. So he recognized …
Education A Detroit charter was evicted. Its likely replacement has deep-pocketed backers.chalkbeat.org - By Koby Levin With just over a month to go before the first day of school, power players in Detroit’s education landscape are rushing to fill a recently shuttered …
Colorado Education reform group endorses candidates in Denver school board raceschalkbeat.org - By Melanie Asmar On the heels of endorsements from the Denver teachers union, the local chapter of a national education reform group has endorsed a different set of …
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation One year in, Gates-funded networks of schools are getting off the ground — and more are on the waychalkbeat.org - By Camille Respess Baltimore’s school leaders have a clear goal: to improve their eighth and ninth-graders’ reading and writing skills. They also have $11 million from …
Tennessee Scenes from a Memphis job fair: How one veteran teacher is struggling to return to the kindergarten classroomchalkbeat.org - By Kathryn Palmer There’s still three weeks before school starts in Memphis, but on a recent afternoon, the parking lot at Hickory Ridge Middle School was …
Education How I Teach: Retirement editionchalkbeat.org - By Camille Respess Welcome to the July edition of How I Teach! I’m Camille Respess, Chalkbeat’s national intern for the summer. Ann is on vacation. While volunteering …
Mexico Want to know what’s in León’s big plan for Newark schools? Here are the highlights.chalkbeat.org - By Patrick Wall Welcome to Chalkbeat Newark's weekly newsletter! Read all about Superintendent León’s “Clarity 2020” plan, a new crop of district officials, and much …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoVaccination Rise & Shine: The Greeley school district is offering free vaccineschalkbeat.org - By Melanie Asmar Chalkbeat now has eight bureaus across the country, seven of which cover schools in their communities, while our national desk tracks efforts to …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDetroit, MI Rise & Shine: Ideas from Detroit for filling teacher vacancieschalkbeat.org - By Laura Faith Kebede Our team just got back from a few days in Detroit with the rest of our Chalkbeat colleagues from around the nation. Memphis is often a comparison …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDetroit, MI Rise & Shine: A push in Detroit to attract teachers before the new school yearchalkbeat.org - By Lori Higgins Earlier this year, I met a Detroit student who had gone several years without a permanent English teacher. It's a startling reality. But it's also …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDetroit, MI Rise & Shine: Teacher shortage poses a summer challenge to Detroit schoolschalkbeat.org - By Erica Irish In April, the Indiana Department of Education published a report showing a teacher shortage across 14 subject areas in the state. Last school year …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoEducation Rise & Shine: Report finds the city only served 27 percent of hungry students last summerchalkbeat.org - By Zipporah Osei The city reached a $300,000 settlement with a teen from Brooklyn who says staffers at her former school dismissed her concerns when she told them a …
Education Detroit schools get creative to fill teacher vacancieschalkbeat.org - By Imani Harris With seven weeks to go before students are back in the classroom, schools across Detroit are on the hunt for a hot commodity: Certified teachers. In …
Education How could Congress help integrate schools?chalkbeat.org - By Sarah Darville, Matt Barnum, Kalyn Belsha Welcome to Chalkbeat’s national newsletter! Matt Barnum, Kalyn Belsha, and Sarah Darville here, working to help you make sense of efforts to improve …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoColorado Rise & Shine: Dougco officials consider how to spend $13 million for school safetychalkbeat.org - By Melanie Asmar There are 10 candidates running for three open seats on the Denver school board — and the Denver teachers union has just endorsed three of them. None …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTennessee Rise & Shine: Tennessee school turnaround models either haven’t worked or are stalling outchalkbeat.org - By Kathryn Palmer As you gear up to head back to school next month, consider some new, sobering findings about education reform in our state. Tennessee’s state-run …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIndiana Rise & Shine: The faults in Tennessee’s school turnaround effortchalkbeat.org - By Erica Irish This week, our partners in Chicago and Memphis are giving us a glimpse of how their cities are grappling with issues across their local school …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNew York City Rise & Shine: NYC arts programs get a $100,000 donation for supplieschalkbeat.org - By Zipporah Osei Beth Berlin, the state education department’s executive deputy commissioner, will be New York’s acting commissioner starting this September, …
Education An integration push meets long-standing efforts to improve Brooklyn’s P.S. 676, bringing hope and fresh worrieschalkbeat.org - By Christina Veiga When it came time to enroll her grandson in school, Esther Fesale put his name in the lottery for a nearby charter. But as the summer wound down …
Tennessee Memphis schools chief looking for new ideas because ‘what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working’chalkbeat.org - By Laura Faith Kebede As someone who has been a go-to problem solver in his previous roles in Shelby County Schools, Superintendent Joris Ray says he has had a hard time …
Chicago Public Schools Free backpacks, immunizations: Here’s the list of Chicago ‘back-to-school bashes’ full of free stuffchalkbeat.org - By Cassie Walker Burke It’s become an annual back-to-school tradition: A series of bashes for families and educators hosted by Chicago Public Schools and offering free …
Colorado One of four candidates drops out of southeast Denver school board racechalkbeat.org - By Melanie Asmar One of four candidates running to represent southeast Denver on the school board has dropped out of the race after not winning the endorsement of the …
Tennessee What the 2019 National Teacher of the Year told Memphis educators must happen if they want to reduce suspensionschalkbeat.org - By Kathryn Palmer Rodney Robinson will never forget how isolated he felt as one of the few black faces at his Virginia high school. “Growing up as the smart black kid …
Education No more ‘sink-or-swim’ for new teacherschalkbeat.org - By Cassie Walker Burke [caption id="attachment_221330" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Teacher hopefuls Noor Maghrebi and Leo Sanchez take a break from teaching to pose at …
Colorado Rise & Shine: Education reform group makes school board endorsementschalkbeat.org - By Erica Meltzer Welcome to another Friday edition of Rise & Shine. We hope you've been finding a way to stay cool as we face another potential triple-digit day. Hit …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMemphis, TN Rise & Shine: ‘Crunch time’ for Memphis teachers looking for jobs, schools trying to fill vacancieschalkbeat.org - By Jacinthia Jones There's less than a month until school starts in most districts in Tennessee, and recently in Memphis, hundreds of prospective teachers flocked to a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoEducation Rise & Shine: Class hatching projects lead to hundreds of duckling deaths at school year’s endchalkbeat.org - By Sara Mosle Make way for ducklings: Owing to chick-hatching projects in city schools, hundreds of ducklings are being released into city parks where they face …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDetroit, MI Rise & Shine: What does a new charter school in southwest Detroit mean for the community?chalkbeat.org - By Imani Harris School closures can be difficult for any students, but they're particularly so for English learners who might already be struggling in school. Can a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMemphis, TN Rise & Shine: Retired Memphis teachers may face roadblocks as they return to fill job vacancieschalkbeat.org - By Erica Irish As Gov. Eric Holcomb tours the state in the first weeks of his official re-election campaign, public school teachers are coming out in force. Their …
Education No more sink or swim: How one Illinois program aims to train more resilient, longer-lasting teacherschalkbeat.org - By Yana Kunichoff Just two years out of high school, Leo Sanchez can easily recall the drowsy feeling of sitting in a Chicago classroom on a warm day. So he recognized …
Education A Detroit charter was evicted. Its likely replacement has deep-pocketed backers.chalkbeat.org - By Koby Levin With just over a month to go before the first day of school, power players in Detroit’s education landscape are rushing to fill a recently shuttered …
Colorado Education reform group endorses candidates in Denver school board raceschalkbeat.org - By Melanie Asmar On the heels of endorsements from the Denver teachers union, the local chapter of a national education reform group has endorsed a different set of …
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation One year in, Gates-funded networks of schools are getting off the ground — and more are on the waychalkbeat.org - By Camille Respess Baltimore’s school leaders have a clear goal: to improve their eighth and ninth-graders’ reading and writing skills. They also have $11 million from …
Tennessee Scenes from a Memphis job fair: How one veteran teacher is struggling to return to the kindergarten classroomchalkbeat.org - By Kathryn Palmer There’s still three weeks before school starts in Memphis, but on a recent afternoon, the parking lot at Hickory Ridge Middle School was …
Education How I Teach: Retirement editionchalkbeat.org - By Camille Respess Welcome to the July edition of How I Teach! I’m Camille Respess, Chalkbeat’s national intern for the summer. Ann is on vacation. While volunteering …
Mexico Want to know what’s in León’s big plan for Newark schools? Here are the highlights.chalkbeat.org - By Patrick Wall Welcome to Chalkbeat Newark's weekly newsletter! Read all about Superintendent León’s “Clarity 2020” plan, a new crop of district officials, and much …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoVaccination Rise & Shine: The Greeley school district is offering free vaccineschalkbeat.org - By Melanie Asmar Chalkbeat now has eight bureaus across the country, seven of which cover schools in their communities, while our national desk tracks efforts to …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDetroit, MI Rise & Shine: Ideas from Detroit for filling teacher vacancieschalkbeat.org - By Laura Faith Kebede Our team just got back from a few days in Detroit with the rest of our Chalkbeat colleagues from around the nation. Memphis is often a comparison …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDetroit, MI Rise & Shine: A push in Detroit to attract teachers before the new school yearchalkbeat.org - By Lori Higgins Earlier this year, I met a Detroit student who had gone several years without a permanent English teacher. It's a startling reality. But it's also …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDetroit, MI Rise & Shine: Teacher shortage poses a summer challenge to Detroit schoolschalkbeat.org - By Erica Irish In April, the Indiana Department of Education published a report showing a teacher shortage across 14 subject areas in the state. Last school year …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoEducation Rise & Shine: Report finds the city only served 27 percent of hungry students last summerchalkbeat.org - By Zipporah Osei The city reached a $300,000 settlement with a teen from Brooklyn who says staffers at her former school dismissed her concerns when she told them a …
Education Detroit schools get creative to fill teacher vacancieschalkbeat.org - By Imani Harris With seven weeks to go before students are back in the classroom, schools across Detroit are on the hunt for a hot commodity: Certified teachers. In …
Education How could Congress help integrate schools?chalkbeat.org - By Sarah Darville, Matt Barnum, Kalyn Belsha Welcome to Chalkbeat’s national newsletter! Matt Barnum, Kalyn Belsha, and Sarah Darville here, working to help you make sense of efforts to improve …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoColorado Rise & Shine: Dougco officials consider how to spend $13 million for school safetychalkbeat.org - By Melanie Asmar There are 10 candidates running for three open seats on the Denver school board — and the Denver teachers union has just endorsed three of them. None …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTennessee Rise & Shine: Tennessee school turnaround models either haven’t worked or are stalling outchalkbeat.org - By Kathryn Palmer As you gear up to head back to school next month, consider some new, sobering findings about education reform in our state. Tennessee’s state-run …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIndiana Rise & Shine: The faults in Tennessee’s school turnaround effortchalkbeat.org - By Erica Irish This week, our partners in Chicago and Memphis are giving us a glimpse of how their cities are grappling with issues across their local school …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNew York City Rise & Shine: NYC arts programs get a $100,000 donation for supplieschalkbeat.org - By Zipporah Osei Beth Berlin, the state education department’s executive deputy commissioner, will be New York’s acting commissioner starting this September, …
