Robyn Vincent

Robyn Vincent

Robyn Vincent covers Detroit schools, educational equity and systems of power for Chalkbeat Detroit. She has worked as a reporter, producer, and editor for NPR stations in the Mountain West. Robyn also built and launched a newsroom at a public radio station in Wyoming, and was editor-in-chief of an alternative weekly newspaper there. She led that paper to win its first national award for a series she directed tracing one reporter’s experience living and working with Syrian refugees. Robyn is the proud daughter of an immigrant and her award-winning audio work has captured the tensions that people of color grapple with living in the Mountain West. Her investigation into the unchecked power of Colorado sheriffs won her a fellowship through Investigative Reporters and Editors. She is a graduate of Wayne State University, a lover of Detroit techno, and has juggled a number of jobs to stay afloat while nurturing her journalism career, from airline baggage handler to personal shopper.

Overall school attendance is improving, but children with disabilities and those from low-income families aren’t rebounding as well as their peers, the state reports.

Every school in the Detroit district should soon have laundry facilities. Here’s why that could make a dent in chronic absenteeism.

The move comes after Chalkbeat Detroit highlighted some of the company’s problems serving students in other districts.

Alicia Alvarez helps students at Western International High School in southwest Detroit to envision, and obtain, a path to higher education. But there’s no shortage of obstacles standing in the way.

Union leaders say the new contract sets Detroit apart from other districts, with terms that will attract new teachers and retain existing ones.

Through history, art, culture, and conversation, students get the support that queer youth before them didn't have.

The teachers union leader said the tentative agreement with the district is full of “big wins.”

Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says it is now a matter of agreeing on “the details, not the big issues.”