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5 big questions facing Miguel Cardona, Biden’s pick for education secretary

Cardona faces short-term questions about COVID and long-term ones about how to improve schools.

By Matt Barnum

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‘It’s not there’: A Memphis student scrambles to catch up on missing assignments

By Laura Faith Kebede

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Across U.S., states see public school enrollment dip as virus disrupts education

By Kalyn Belsha, Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee, and 2 more

Biden to nominate Miguel Cardona as education secretary, sidestepping fraught policy debates

By Matt Barnum and Sarah Darville

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Memphis schools already have one tool to deal with learning loss. What’s missing is funding.

As a third grade teacher, I saw the unfulfilled potential of Response to Intervention and Instruction programs.

By Haley Mathews

10 questions about the new stimulus deal for schools, answered

By Matt Barnum

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7 Colorado education stories to watch in 2021

By Erica Meltzer

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Chicago plans to reopen schools, close budget gap with $720 million in anticipated stimulus funds

By Cassie Walker Burke

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Chicago cluster educators — the first to return when schools reopen — want more details

By Yana Kunichoff and Samantha Smylie

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Philadelphia schools due for more than $400 million from COVID-19 relief

By Dale Mezzacappa

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Could addressing dyslexia boost literacy in Michigan? Some lawmakers want to find out.

By Koby Levin

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Ahead of winter break, a student-organized talent show gives a Detroit freshman a moment to shine

By Eleanore Catolico

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Principal shares vision for new Denver high school modeled after historically Black colleges

By Melanie Asmar

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Online tutors are helping NYC students catch up. But expanding these programs remains costly.

By Amy Zimmer

The wait is nearly over: Congress set to provide over $50 billion for public schools

By Matt Barnum

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NYC plans to expand ‘community schools,’ hire more social workers in neighborhoods hit hard by COVID-19

By Christina Veiga and Amy Zimmer

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Colorado lawmakers promise enrollment drop won’t hurt school funding

By Erica Meltzer

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‘Safer in school’: How students led the overhaul of sexual harassment protections in Shelby County Schools

By Laura Faith Kebede

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Susana Cordova’s short superintendency in a district where she has a long history

By Melanie Asmar

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‘Ordered chaos:’ Teachers and families adjust to pandemic pre-K in Philadelphia

By Melanie Bavaria

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What’s working and what isn’t? Help us report on special education solutions in New York City

By Lauren Constantino, THE CITY

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How this Chicago pre-K teacher created a typical day for her students in an atypical year

By Cassie Walker Burke

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To help deal with COVID, IPS will add administrators at some schools

By Aaricka Washington

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Pandemic’s toll on NYC schools serving new immigrants: Fewer students, less money, waning services

By Reema Amin

How Trump made a tiny Christian college the nation’s biggest prison educator

By Eli Hager

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Colorado schools missing 29,900 students as pandemic disrupts education

By Erica Meltzer

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Tennessee needs people to get the COVID vaccine, but proposals to weaken child immunization law could discourage that

By Marta W. Aldrich

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NYC announces sweeping changes to middle, high school application process

By Christina Veiga

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‘Overwhelmed’ Newark high schoolers protest rumored class schedule change

By Patrick Wall

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Whitmer: State has ‘very important role to play’ finding missing students

By Koby Levin

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Michigan high schools can return to in-person learning

By Lori Higgins

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Denver charter network DSST will open one school and close another next year

By Melanie Asmar

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Words matter: How and why Chalkbeat chooses the descriptors we use

By Emiliana Sandoval

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Yes, in-person learning is still possible with ‘red’ COVID numbers. Here’s how it looks in one Colorado district

By Ann Schimke

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State superintendent on Michigan enrollment drop: 13,000 students ‘are a significant concern’

By Lori Higgins

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