Hannah Dellinger

Reporter, Chalkbeat Detroit

Hannah Dellinger is a reporter for Chalkbeat Detroit. Previously, she was an education reporter at the Houston Chronicle, where she completed a project on censorship in Texas public schools with an Education Writers Association fellowship in 2022. Prior to that, Hannah was a Hearst journalism fellow for two years in Houston and Connecticut, where she published an investigation and database of child sexual abuse tied to Boys & Girls Clubs of America affiliates that won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 2020.
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
Michigan students making slow progress in academic recovery, report on benchmark tests finds

Students have improved slightly in math achievement since fall 2020, but reading performance has remained stagnant after a significant drop.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | November 16
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
Michigan school board dismisses call for required threat assessment training to prevent gun violence

Members of the board said they felt the resolution needed more research and input from officials.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | November 14
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
No one heard my cries for help as a child. As a reporter, I am here to listen to kids who are suffering.

Hannah Dellinger, Chalkbeat Detroit’s newest reporter, opens up about why she became a journalist focused on protecting kids and their right to a quality education.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | November 7
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
How Michigan teacher evaluations would change under proposed reforms

Districts would have more power, and test scores would not be a factor.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | October 30
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
Michigan lawmakers revive effort to support students with dyslexia

Some advocates call for a larger overhaul of the system for determining who is eligible for special education.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | October 18
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
With a natural love for reading, this Detroit teacher equips her students with the tools they need to be engaged readers

Anna Mayotte, a fifth grade English teacher at Gardner Elementary School, shares how she improves and promotes literacy in her classroom.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | October 17
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
Michigan schools hired more than 1,300 additional mental health staff over five years

State funding helped expand the rolls of social workers, counselors, nurses, and psychologists serving students.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | October 12
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
Chronic absenteeism in Michigan schools drops, but still exceeds pre-pandemic levels

Nearly a third of students missed too much school in the latest school year.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | October 10
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
Michigan is ‘improving outcomes’ for early childhood health and education, report says

The report cites key health indicators for parents and children, as well as policy changes. But the state still lags the national average in some areas.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | September 27
FROM Chalkbeat Detroit
Retired Michigan teachers may get green light to return to the classroom

Lawmakers advanced a proposal that would let retirees take public school jobs immediately without giving up their pensions.

By 
Hannah Dellinger
 | September 19