Eric Gorski
Managing Editor for Local News
Eric Gorski is one of Chalkbeat’s Managing Editors for Local News. He was previously Bureau Chief of Chalkbeat Colorado. Gorski has worked as an investigative and projects reporter for The Denver Post, a national writer for The Associated Press, and a reporter for The (Colorado Springs) Gazette, The Oregonian, and the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail. He was twice named the Religion Newswriters Association’s Religion Writer of the Year, and was part of The Denver Post staff’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. Gorski is a graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism at The University of Kansas.
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The COVID-19 crisis has forced many states into the uncharted territory of trying to conduct business meetings virtually.
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The 92,000-student district acknowledged the “unexpected change is inconvenient for families” but said it had little choice.
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After the deadly Highland Ranch school shooting, parents and educators share their fears, frustrations, and what school was like the day after the tragedy.