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A new twist in the arms race for a seat at an elite NYC public high school: Beacon is now requiring students complete th...
30/09/2025

A new twist in the arms race for a seat at an elite NYC public high school: Beacon is now requiring students complete their admissions essays in person.

Eric Adams is known for threatening to slash the Education Department’s budget. But after fierce pushback, many of those...
30/09/2025

Eric Adams is known for threatening to slash the Education Department’s budget. But after fierce pushback, many of those cuts were reversed.

A new accountability tool can tell us which NYC school districts are behind on resources.
29/09/2025

A new accountability tool can tell us which NYC school districts are behind on resources.

Yehiri Gonzalez is among the first five graduates of the Teach Chicago Tomorrow program, which helps Chicago Public Scho...
29/09/2025

Yehiri Gonzalez is among the first five graduates of the Teach Chicago Tomorrow program, which helps Chicago Public Schools students become teachers in the district.

Eric Adams touted his education record in a short video announcing plans to exit the mayoral race.
28/09/2025

Eric Adams touted his education record in a short video announcing plans to exit the mayoral race.

“There have been constant questions aimed at Mamdani that they haven’t really answered in terms of what an education pol...
26/09/2025

“There have been constant questions aimed at Mamdani that they haven’t really answered in terms of what an education policy agenda would look like,” one observer said. “Cuomo potentially sees blood.”

Four months ago, Dylan showed up at his routine immigration court date and became the first known public school student ...
26/09/2025

Four months ago, Dylan showed up at his routine immigration court date and became the first known public school student to be detained by ICE. He was denied asylum this week and ordered to be deported back to Venezuela.

Ryan Walters, a conservative firebrand who embraced the culture wars, says his goal now is to “destroy the teachers unio...
25/09/2025

Ryan Walters, a conservative firebrand who embraced the culture wars, says his goal now is to “destroy the teachers unions.”

After 18 years at the helm of Advocates for Children, Kim Sweet shares her take on how well NYC is serving vulnerable st...
25/09/2025

After 18 years at the helm of Advocates for Children, Kim Sweet shares her take on how well NYC is serving vulnerable students, what she thinks of Zohran Mamdani’s proposal to end mayoral control, and more.

Using his own journey as a Haitian immigrant, Websder Corneille builds a connection with Haitian students and their care...
25/09/2025

Using his own journey as a Haitian immigrant, Websder Corneille builds a connection with Haitian students and their caregivers and offers resources beyond school walls.

Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Bronx high school student detained by federal agents in May, was denied asylum. His lawyers are...
24/09/2025

Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Bronx high school student detained by federal agents in May, was denied asylum. His lawyers are appealing the ruling, which would send him back to Venezuela.

After NYC officials missed a Trump administration deadline to scrap policies designed to protect transgender students, t...
24/09/2025

After NYC officials missed a Trump administration deadline to scrap policies designed to protect transgender students, the federal government canceled millions in grant funding.

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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.