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Here’s what Lindsey Burke, a top Trump administration official and Project 2025 author, told us about funding cuts, stud...
01/14/2026

Here’s what Lindsey Burke, a top Trump administration official and Project 2025 author, told us about funding cuts, students with disabilities, and more.

⚠️ TODAY ⚠️ Chalkbeat editors Matt Barnum and Erica Meltzer are discussing why the Trump administration wants to elimina...
01/14/2026

⚠️ TODAY ⚠️ Chalkbeat editors Matt Barnum and Erica Meltzer are discussing why the Trump administration wants to eliminate the Department of Education with Lindsey Burke, the department's deputy chief of staff for policy and programs. There's still time to register! ⬇️

Join us for our next Chalkbeat Ideas event, where our journalists examine the big ideas and debates shaping American schools.

Riverstone Academy is intended to test legal boundaries related to the separation of church and state
01/14/2026

Riverstone Academy is intended to test legal boundaries related to the separation of church and state

NJ Gov. Phil Murphy delivered his final State of the State address on Tuesday, recapping his most long-standing initiati...
01/13/2026

NJ Gov. Phil Murphy delivered his final State of the State address on Tuesday, recapping his most long-standing initiatives on education policy during his eight-year governorship.

🚨 TOMORROW 🚨 Join us for our next Chalkbeat Ideas event, where our journalists examine the big ideas and debates shaping...
01/13/2026

🚨 TOMORROW 🚨 Join us for our next Chalkbeat Ideas event, where our journalists examine the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. RSVP to join this important conversation at the link below. There will be time for audience-submitted questions.

Join us for our next Chalkbeat Ideas event, where our journalists examine the big ideas and debates shaping American schools.

The Trump administration has taken unprecedented steps to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Join us as we unpa...
01/13/2026

The Trump administration has taken unprecedented steps to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Join us as we unpack what this means with the department's deputy chief of staff for policy and programs Lindsey Burke. Register: ckbe.at/4arS85q

Why does the Trump administration want to eliminate the Department of Education? What does it mean for students, educato...
01/12/2026

Why does the Trump administration want to eliminate the Department of Education? What does it mean for students, educators, and parents? Join us for this discussion with Lindsey Burke, the department's deputy chief of staff for policy and programs: ckbe.at/4arS85q

Can a high school career and technical education program help address Philadelphia’s teacher shortage? Teacher Gina Duke...
01/12/2026

Can a high school career and technical education program help address Philadelphia’s teacher shortage? Teacher Gina Dukes says students need more support.

“When we have a revolving door of teacher turnover, this leads to poorer outcomes for students,” said Heather Peske, pre...
01/12/2026

“When we have a revolving door of teacher turnover, this leads to poorer outcomes for students,” said Heather Peske, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality.

The Supreme Court tied last year on whether charter schools can be religious. New schools in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Co...
01/09/2026

The Supreme Court tied last year on whether charter schools can be religious. New schools in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Colorado are setting up test cases.

The new policies should, at a minimum, provide “age-appropriate and grade-level guidelines” for restricting cellphone an...
01/08/2026

The new policies should, at a minimum, provide “age-appropriate and grade-level guidelines” for restricting cellphone and social media use during classroom instruction.

Experts don’t really know. Leading theories include screens, school expectations, and the pandemic.
01/08/2026

Experts don’t really know. Leading theories include screens, school expectations, and the pandemic.

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Chalkbeat launched in 2013 to address an alarming collision: the business model for news was collapsing during a period of dramatic upheaval in American education. In particular, local news faced an existential threat just as public education — which is inherently local — was undergoing transformation in how schools were governed, funded, and assigned students.

Six years later, Chalkbeat is one of the largest nonprofit news organizations in America, reporting on the most critical topics in education across seven states. We have published thousands of stories and spurred real-world changes in every state where we operate, from the shuttering of a flagrantly mismanaged virtual school in Indiana to the abolishment of a high-school admissions method in New York City that penalized low-income families. We’ve won 60 local and national journalism awards and mobilized 1,345 donors and sponsors to support our work.

While Chalkbeat has expanded, the local news crisis has accelerated, leaving Chalkbeat with a formidable challenge: We are chasing growing demand for high-quality local education news at a time when resources for news have never been more scarce.

The task is daunting, but our unique model — a nonprofit newsroom covering a single topic in multiple locations — represents a promising path forward. By accepting the economics of the internet and using them to our advantage, we have mobilized new and diverse sources of support for an essential public good. We’ve reimagined what local news can be as we’ve rebuilt it, elevating a subject that was previously a stepping-stone beat for rookie reporters, treating readers as partners, and focusing exclusively on the education story that matters most: the almost 30 million children in America who live near or below the poverty line.