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What education stories do you want to see more of in 2023?

Let Chalkbeat know what education stories you would like us to cover this semester.

By  Caroline Bauman Caroline Bauman
 
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As a new semester starts, Chalkbeat wants to know: What is your school community’s biggest education story in 2023?

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How schools seek to overcome pandemic-related mental health challenges and the broad impact of long-standing inequities.

Efforts to recover from COVID’s lingering toll. New restrictions on teaching about race, gender and sexuality. Gun violence. New efforts to boost reading. Teacher turnover. Intensified focus on student mental health. 

These were just some of the issues defining school communities across America last year. We turned to Chalkbeat readers dozens of times for help with our journalism — and your ideas and stories influenced hundreds of articles. Now, as a new school semester launches, we want to know: What’s the biggest education issue facing your school community in 2023?

Our journalists want to start the year from a place of listening, and your voice will help us determine what stories and questions matter most to you. Fill out our brief survey below, or go here.

Caroline Bauman connects Chalkbeat journalists with our readers as the community engagement manager and previously reported at Chalkbeat Tennessee. Connect with Caroline at cbauman@chalkbeat.org.

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