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Beth Hawkins is a senior writer and national correspondent at The 74.

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Due Process, Undue Delays: NYC’s Decades-Long Special Ed Bottleneck

Data Show LGBTQ Students Report Bullying and Attacks from Kids — and Teachers

Minnesota Supreme Court Takes School Desegregation Case to the Kids

Angry at DeSantis, Fla. Students Take to the Streets — and Take a Banned Lesson

‘We Stole 5 Years from Kids’: A Houston Board Member on Looming State Takeover

Amid Shortage, MN Bill Endangers Thousands of Special Ed, Rural, CTE Teachers

Ending a Years-Long Standoff, State Officials Announce Houston Schools Takeover

Snow Dazed and Amused: Supe’s Video Goes Viral after Blizzard that Wasn’t

February 23, 2023

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74 Interview: New KIPP CEO Shavar Jeffries on Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs

February 12, 2023

Survey: More Than Half of LGBTQ Florida Parents Are Thinking About Moving

February 9, 2023

Bucking Trends, Louisiana Sees a Small, Promising Boost In Its Teacher Supply

February 1, 2023

Anger & Fear: New Poll Shows School-Level Impact of Anti-LGBTQ Political Debate

January 19, 2023

Top Texas Court Green-Lights State Takeover of Houston Schools. Will it Happen?

January 19, 2023

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74 Interview: Meet Minneapolis’s First Autistic School Board Member

January 10, 2023

Appeals Court Dismisses Challenge to Connecticut’s Trans-Inclusive Sports Rules

December 19, 2022

'Miles Ahead': St. Paul Tracks Recovery Spending, Adjusts Programs on the Fly

December 13, 2022

‘Drinking From a Fire Hydrant’: New Orleans’ New Superintendent’s Singular To-Do List

November 17, 2022

‘The Bottom Has Dropped Out’: Study Confirms Fears of Growing Learning Gaps

November 16, 2022

Wisconsin Re-Elects Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, Derails Push for School Vouchers

November 9, 2022

There Are Just 90 LGBTQ School Board Members. Half Were Threatened, Harassed

October 25, 2022

More Hostility, Less Support: LGBT Youth Poll Finds Rampant In-School Harassment

October 19, 2022

State of Play: Girls’ Athletics Rising — With or Without Trans Kids on the Team

October 19, 2022

Badger State Bellwether? If Purple Wisconsin Goes Red, Expect School Voucher Boom

October 18, 2022

Poll: Half of Americans Know Little About CRT, What’s Actually Taught in Schools

October 12, 2022

College Mental Health Supports Reduce Suicide Risk 84% in LGBTQ Students

September 28, 2022

Court: Minnesota Schools’ Racial Imbalance Alone Not a Constitutional Violation

September 27, 2022

special education

Yes, There’s a Shortage of Special Education Teachers. And That’s Nothing New

September 15, 2022

Teacher Strike Delays Start of the New School Year in Seattle

September 7, 2022

A Texas Muralist Paints Her Heart Out For Uvalde

August 30, 2022

Special Ed Kids Were Shunted Back Online. Is It a Move to the Virtual Basement?

August 17, 2022

Kids Catch Up Best With Grade-Level Work — But Keep Getting Easier Assignments

August 16, 2022

Great Hearts Hopes In-Person Pods + Online Teaching = New Type of Hybrid School

Poll: As ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Looms, 1 in 3 Educators Oppose Teaching LGBTQ History

Tennessee Students Rebound to Pre-Pandemic Reading Proficiency

How Libraries Came to be Sanctuaries for LGBTQ Kids

The Kids Hiding in Plain Sight: Advocates Push to Collect Data on LGBT Students

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‘Provider of Last Resort’: Superintendent’s Last Plea for Help for Her Students

Buffalo Shooting Suspect Made Threat at School But Wasn’t on NY ‘Red Flag’ List

Minneapolis Teacher Strike Lasted 3 Weeks. The Fallout Will Be Felt for Years

700 Days of COVID & Counting

Threatened & Trolled, School Board Members Quit in Record Numbers

Weaving a Stronger Society — Starting in Our Schools

The Undocumented Youth Changing New Mexico

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Mike Magee Leaving Chiefs to Be New Minerva University President

Minneapolis Educators End 3-Week Walkout

Lessons from a Small School: What Student Re-Engagement Truly Means

Minneapolis, St. Paul Educators Vote to Strike

February 18, 2022

Million-Dollar Records Request: MN Districts Flooded With Document Demands

February 16, 2022

Inside a School for Unaccompanied Minors

February 4, 2022

States Aren't Making Sure ESSER Money Goes to Kids Who Need It Most

January 25, 2022

Report: Keeping Schools Open Isn’t Enough

January 24, 2022

Educators' Mental Health Tied to Classroom Effectiveness

January 5, 2022

Students in Majority Black Schools Now a Full 12 Months Behind White Peers

December 14, 2021

Minnesota Judge Orders Desegregation Case to Trial

December 8, 2021

Can Shrinking Schools Downsize Themselves?

December 7, 2021

American Education’s Most Turbulent Year

Downsize Schools, or Keep Them Open & Hope Students Come Back?

November 29, 2021

Indianapolis ‘Innovation Network’ Schools See 42% Jump in Students Amid Pandemic

November 15, 2021

A Strategy to Lure Back Disengaged Students Amid COVID: Job Training Programs

November 9, 2021

Incentives Boost Use of Quality Curriculum

October 26, 2021

All-Charter District Seeks Superintendent

October 25, 2021

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Superintendent Michael Thomas on Changing a White School System

October 20, 2021

Minneapolis Fed Maps the Achievement Gap

October 7, 2021

New Partnership to Help Districts Use Real-Time Data to Aid Student Recovery

October 6, 2021

Few Families Asked for Input on School Stimulus Spending

September 29, 2021

Diverse Group of Parents Protest for Better Literacy Instruction

September 28, 2021

Chicago’s New School Chief Has Long Record of Innovation in Texas

September 19, 2021

Districts Are Scrambling for Virtual Options. Will They Be Good Enough?

September 2, 2021

EdNext Finds Drop in Support for All Reforms

August 31, 2021

What Researchers Know — & Don't — as School Year Gets Underway

August 15, 2021

Thousands of Students, Teachers in Quarantine

August 13, 2021

Why the Fallout from Pandemic’s K-Shaped Recession Will Affect Schools for Years

D.C.’s Missing Students and the Rush to Avert a COVID Classroom Crisis

With Up to 9 Grade Levels Per Class, Can Schools Handle the Fallout From COVID’s K-Shaped Recession?

Will Fallout from COVID Recession Fix Delaware's Jim Crow-Era School Funding?

How Tesla, Reinvented Schools & Robotics Set Reno Up to Weather COVID Recession

Can Doubling Down on School Reforms Avert COVID Classroom Crisis?

The Big Picture

New Data on Students with Disabilities Finds Opportunity and Risk

Frank Talk About Race From Minnesota Teens as they Remember George Floyd

New Report: Use Acceleration, Not Remediation, to Fight COVID Learning Loss

Minneapolis Teens Walk Out to Protest Police Shootings

Beth Hawkins & Meghan Gallagher

A Lesson Plan on Daunte Wright and History

Inside Louisiana’s ‘Equitable Recovery’ in Math Performance

CARES Act Funding Opens Window onto How Minneapolis Private Schools Are Serving Low-Income Kids

Two Steps Forward, One Back: Teacher Diversity Bill May Push Hundreds of Minnesota Educators of Color from Classrooms

Inside the Fight to Reopen Minneapolis Classrooms: ‘Labor’ Governor Fights to Deliver on $745 Million Wishlist to Teachers as Unions Push Against Returning to School

February 4, 2021

Parent Poll: Vaccine ‘Absolutely Necessary’ for Sending Kids Back to Classrooms; 6 in 10 Will Immunize Their Children

January 6, 2021

New NACSA Chief Karega Rausch’s Mission for Authorizers: Make Charter Schools More Responsive to the Communities They Serve

January 3, 2021

Anti-LGBT Activist Loses Orleans Parish School Board Race to a Gay Educator; 4 Other NOLA Runoff Elections Settled

December 17, 2020

Phantom Students, Very Real Red Ink: Why Efforts to Keep Student Disenrollment from Busting School Budgets Can Backfire

December 16, 2020

Lost Learning, Lost Students: COVID Slide Not as Steep as Predicted, NWEA Study Finds — But 1 in 4 Kids Was Missing from Fall Exams

December 1, 2020

School Reopening ‘Churn’ Distracting District Leaders from Focusing on Improved Remote Education & Student Engagement, Researchers Find

November 19, 2020

New Poll Finds Parents Want Better Distance Learning Now, Online Options Even After COVID, More Family Engagement

November 17, 2020

Resolving the Pre-K Paradox: New Research Details How Chicago Filled its Preschool Classrooms with the City’s Neediest Kids

November 11, 2020

Arizona Teachers Took Their Case for Better Funding to Voters. A Tax on High Earners that Could Raise $1B Is Poised to Pass

November 4, 2020

Despite Major Push by Democrats, Texas House of Representatives, Always at Least a Little Purple, Stays Under Republican Control

November 4, 2020

Just 2 NOLA School Board Members Win Seats; With 5 Races Going to December Runoff, Balance of Power Remains Unknown

November 4, 2020

With Georgia’s Special Election Moving to a January Runoff, Control of U.S. Senate Could Be Unknown for Weeks

November 4, 2020

Show Me State Showing: Missouri Gov. Mike Parson Bests Democratic Challenger in Race Where School Reopenings Were Top Issue

November 4, 2020

Too Young to Vote, Eager to Make Sure You Can: Meet the High School Students Keeping America’s Polls Open

October 27, 2020

By Design, New Orleans School Board has Limited Power. November’s High-Stakes Election May Change That

October 21, 2020

How New Orleans Schools Are Making Up Special Education Losses From the Spring Pandemic Shutdown — and Why the Process Could Improve Distance Learning This Fall

October 13, 2020

Yellow Rose, Blue Wave: What Democrats’ Statehouse Ascent Might Mean for Texas’s Singular K-12 Political Landscape

October 13, 2020

When the Point of the Pod Is Equity: How Small Grants Are Empowering Parents of Underserved Students to Form Pandemic Microschools

September 21, 2020

Amid the Pandemic, Louisiana Educators Are Fighting Through the Fallout From a Hurricane. Lake Charles’s Devastation, By the Numbers

September 17, 2020

‘1619 Project’ Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones on Reframing the Narrative Around America’s Racialized History and Education News Coverage in a Pandemic

September 15, 2020

On Hurricane Katrina’s 15th Anniversary, 5 New Orleans Educators Tap Lessons From the Storm to Confront COVID-19

August 23, 2020

How Louisiana Districts Did a Quick Pandemic Pivot in the Spring — and Are Fine-Tuning Distance Learning for the New School Year

August 20, 2020

Individualize Instruction, Remove Barriers, Track Student Progress: Some Tips for Making Distance-Learning Special Ed Work

August 18, 2020

Could $50 a Week Empower High School Students to Set and Meet Education Goals? This New Orleans School Aims to Find Out

Top DeVos Deputy Tells Nation’s Education Reporters That Pandemic Adds Urgency to Federal Push for Private School Choice

Lessons from a Global Reckoning

Lessons From a Global Reckoning: Students at a Revered New Orleans HS Learn the Hard Truth About the Slave Trader School Is Named For. Most Other Kids Never Do

‘I Can’t Teach From a Coffin’: Across the Country, Teachers, Parents and Students Hit the Streets to Protest Reopening of Schools

2 New Surveys Find Teachers Stressed by Shutdown, Unable to Contact Students and Feeling Their Confidence Drop

86 Schools, One Goal: How Dozens of New Orleans Educators With Unique Academic Models & Layouts Are Teaming Up to Reopen This Fall

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74 Interview — A Racial Divide in How Kids View Police, Teachers & Neighborhoods: Researcher Lindsay Bell Weixler on the Sobering Findings of Her New Orleans Student Survey

A School Built on Stagecraft: Los Angeles Performing Arts Program Boasts Dance, Music — and Outstanding Special Ed

New Research Predicts Steep COVID Learning Losses Will Widen Already Dramatic Achievement Gaps Within Classrooms

For Years Before George Floyd’s Death, Schools Were Urged to Cut Ties With Police. Inside the Student Campaign That Convinced Minneapolis to Act — and Sparked a Nationwide Trend

All In: A Southern California School With a Radical — and Successful — Vision for Students With Disabilities

In a Pandemic, a Path Forward: New Orleans Schools Team Up to Offer ‘Bridge Year’ to Get More Grads to College, Careers

Gordon Parks Showed America the Rage Behind Decades of Racial Unrest. On Thursday, Minneapolis Rioters Burned the School Named for Him

New Poll Reveals Parents Want One-on-One Distance Learning Support From Teachers — but Aren’t Getting Much of It

With 25% of New Orleans Schools’ Charters Expiring and No Test Data to Show How They’re Doing, Educators Seek a Change in State Law

An American Principal in Africa Is Using Lessons From the Ebola Epidemic to Confront COVID-19. U.S. Educators Can Learn From Him

Michigan Agrees to Aid Detroit Schools With $100 Million in Dedicated Literacy Funds After Courts Agree With New Legal Theory That Students Have Right to Read

DeVos: Dreamers and Other Undocumented College Students Not Eligible for Federal Emergency Aid

Following School Closures, a ‘Rude Awakening’ for Parents: How Remote Education Is Revealing Alarming Learning Gaps, Particularly for Low-Income Families

Using Distance to Grow Closer: How One School Is Leaning on Its Student Relationships to Create Community in a Pandemic

Researchers’ Urgent Message for Schools: Start Planning Now for a Precipitous ‘COVID Slide’ Next Year

Is the Class of 2020 the ‘Gap-Year Generation’? No Way, Say These Two College Access & Persistence Counselors After Coronavirus Shut Their School

When School Pipelines Fail, Parent Organizers and Support Staff Step In to Help the Most Fragile Families

Idaho’s Ban on Transgender Girls in Sports a Big Win for the Powerhouse Law Firm Suing Schools to Enact Bathroom Bills

A Homeschool Mom on Distance Learning for Special-Needs Kids, Socializing Online — and Why Parents Shouldn’t Try to Re-create Public School at Home

Social Distancing Without a Social Safety Net: How Shutdowns Came to My Child’s Fragile School Community

A Legal Right to Literacy: 10 Kids Sued California for Failing to Teach Them to Read. Could Their Settlement Set a Precedent for Other Struggling Schools?

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The 74 Interview: Outgoing Louisiana Chief John White on the New Orleans Experiment, His Longevity and What It Means to Be Well Educated

February 18, 2020

Threatened With Closure, Virtual School Embraced Accountability, Fired Its For-Profit Manager and Made Dramatic Gains for Its 9,000 Students

February 5, 2020

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74 Interview: TN Ed Chief Penny Schwinn on Her Radical Plan Using Schools to Bring Social Services to Rural Areas — and Her Whole-Child Approach to Training Teachers

February 4, 2020

National School Choice Week

Mothers of Invention: Frustrated With the Educational Status Quo and Conventional Parent Organizing, Two Latinas Gave Birth to a National Parents Union

January 27, 2020

Photo History: The Incredible True Story of How Booker T. Washington & the President of Sears Built 5,000 Schools for Generations of Southern Black Students

January 15, 2020

An NFL-Star-Turned-Judge and a Federal Reserve President Want to Amend Minnesota’s Constitution to Require Quality Schools

January 12, 2020

Of Houses and Hope: A Promising Fort Worth School Turnaround and the Closely Watched Policy Push Making It Happen

January 6, 2020

A 2019 Education Journalism Jealousy List: 19 Important Articles About Schools We Wish We Had Published Last Year

Beth Hawkins, Carolyn Phenicie, Laura Fay, Kevin Mahnken, Mark Keierleber, Meghan Gallagher & Taylor Swaak

January 1, 2020

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74 Interview: Howard Fuller on Schooling Elizabeth Warren About Charters, African-American Families, School Choice & Her Education Plan

December 3, 2019

‘Testifying Before Congress … Not as Fun as Working With People to Talk About a New School’: Charter Authorizing Guru Greg Richmond on Past 20 Years & What’s Next

November 19, 2019

Exclusive: Pedro Martinez, Who Led San Antonio District Schools From an F to a B, Named Chiefs for Change Board Chair

November 14, 2019

As Texas Moves to Replace Houston’s School Board, Here Are 7 Things to Know About the Takeover

November 11, 2019

One Under-the-Radar Factor That School Systems Showing Progress on NAEP Have in Common: Leaders From Chiefs for Change

November 4, 2019

Coloring Outside the Lines: Good Special Education Isn’t a Place; It’s a Mindset

November 3, 2019

Texas Kids Denied Special Ed Supports 52% Less Likely to Graduate From HS, 38% Less Likely to Go to College, Shocking New Study Finds

October 30, 2019

Amid Fierce Debate About Integrating New York City Schools, a Diverse-by-Design Brooklyn Charter Offers a Model

October 28, 2019

With a Wealthy, Mostly White Suburb’s Vote to Withdraw, East Baton Rouge Schools a Step Closer to Fourth School Secession

October 14, 2019

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Testing Anxiety, Boredom & Guesses: What Expert Steven Wise Has Learned About Exams and ‘Rapid-Guessing Behavior’ — and What That Tells Him About Your Child’s Score

October 1, 2019

250,000 Kids. $277 Million in Fines. It’s Been 3 Years Since Feds Ordered a Special Ed Reboot in Texas — Why Are Students Still Being Denied?

September 23, 2019

Big Promises, Big Data: Is the SAT’s New ‘Environmental Context’ Score a Tool to Personalize College Admissions, or Another Impersonal Data Point?

August 14, 2019

Virtual Standstill: When a Georgia Online School Tried to Fire For-Profit Operator K12, Students Were Locked Out of Their Computers

August 12, 2019

Enrollment Equity: New Report Urges Policymakers to Push Charter Schools to Welcome More Midyear Transfer Students

Special Blend: Run by New Orleans Students With Disabilities, rOAst Serves Up Hope — and Great Coffee

Pipeline Primed: After a Decade of Efforts, Minnesota Gets 3 Programs for Training Teachers Outside Schools of Education

Louisiana’s School Policy Mojo: New Research Spotlights 7 Years of Successful Efforts to Earn Buy-in From Bayou Teachers on Big Education Reforms

Left Behind: Can East Baton Rouge Schools Survive the Breakaway of a Wealthy — Majority White — Community?

Job Placement, Meet Advanced Placement: Inside a Baltimore High School Where a Diploma Opens the Door to the Middle Class

Parent Power: To Improve Special Education in Charter Schools, Tap Students’ Original Advocates — Their Families — Report Says

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74 Interview: Pulling All the Levers — Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson on Getting More Students to and Through College

Scholarships and Self-Care: New Orleans Charter School Network Sends Grads Off to College with Mental Health Safety Net

Windy City Bluster? Chicago Public Schools Withholds Funds, Squeezing Charter Schools to Accept Less Aid

3 Ways NYU Is Training New Teachers to Use Special Ed and ELL Strategies to Better Serve All Kids

Andrew Goldin Named New Director of Summit Learning Spin-Off T.L.P. Education

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The 74 Interview: Authors Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine on What the Best HS Classrooms Have in Common — Mastery, Identity & Creativity

How One Minnesota School, Beloved By Refugee Families, Has Turned Itself Around While Keeping Hold of Its Teachers, Students and Culture

Robots, Inequality, Apprenticeships: If America Is to Usher In an ‘Age of Agility’ in Education, Experts Say We Must Talk Less About Schools — and More About Students

Does Personalized Learning Work? The Research Is Too Scant, Too New and Too Nuanced to Give a Clear Yes or No — At Least for Now

The Big Picture

Students in Texas Teach for America Classrooms Gain in 8 out of 9 Subjects, New Research Finds

Author of Report on Ed Reform’s Blue Hue Pushes Back Against Critics: ‘It Doesn’t Really Matter Who Is to Blame for How We Got Here’

Watch: ‘Make-or-Break Year’ Author Discusses on Facebook Live How Chicago Raised Grad Rates, Curbed Dropouts By Focusing on Ninth Grade

Hawkins: Red Tape or Red Herring? Minnesota Paperwork Push Mounts a Stealth Attack on the Rights of Children With Disabilities

February 25, 2019

Show and Tell: Why Public Charter School Leaders of Color Are Visiting Capitol Hill to Tell Stories of Communities, Student Success — and Their Need for Support

February 23, 2019

3 States Tried to Shutter Failing For-Profit Online Charter Schools. A Suspicious Pattern of Allegations, Accusations, and Legal Complaints Quickly Followed

February 12, 2019

The Big Picture

New Florida Study Shows Students Using State’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program More Likely to Attend and Graduate College

February 10, 2019

National School Choice Week

The 74 Interview: Democrats for Education Reform’s Shavar Jeffries on the Blue Wave, the Politics of the Possible & Grand Bargains

January 21, 2019

National School Choice Week

Vouchers, Virtual Schools & Armed Volunteers: What Florida’s New Education Reform Trifecta Could Mean for School Choice in the Sunshine State

January 17, 2019

Stanford’s CREDO Releases First Academic Study of Indianapolis’s Innovation Schools, Finds Strong Growth

January 17, 2019

Principled Stand or High-Stakes Standoff? For a Second Year, Houston Thumbs Its Nose at a Popular Texas School Innovation Law and Risks Takeover

January 9, 2019

18 Key Education Stories to Watch This Year (According to the Experts): Congress, Courts, Choice, Classroom Innovations & More

Beth Hawkins, Mark Keierleber, Carolyn Phenicie, Esmeralda Fabián Romero, Kate Stringer & Taylor Swaak

January 7, 2019

Progress, Policy, and Protests: Teacher Evaluation Laws Evolving Faster Than Underlying Research That Proves Their Worth, Experts Say

January 2, 2019

Personalized Learning

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Names Sandra Liu Huang New Head of Education; Champion of Personalized Learning & Interdisciplinary Collaboration Will Succeed Jim Shelton

December 18, 2018

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74 Interview: With Political Headwinds Rising, Constance Jones Becomes 1st African-American Woman to Lead Chicago’s Noble Network

December 3, 2018

A Little Finland, a Little Canada, a Lot of Moxie: Why One Indianapolis Teachers College Is Betting It Can Train More Successful Educators After a Radical Reboot

November 26, 2018

EDlection2018: Texas Elects 4 Democrats, 3 Republicans to Its 15-Member Board of Education

November 7, 2018

EDlection2018: Colorado Voters Reject Ballot Measure That Would Have Raised Taxes to Fund Schools

November 7, 2018

EDlection2018: Newark Voters Decide on Elected, Not Appointed, Board to Oversee Schools Now Returned to Local Control

November 7, 2018

EDlection2018: Michelle Lujan Grisham Will Be New Mexico’s Next Governor, Promises a Rollback of Her Predecessor’s Education Reforms

November 7, 2018

EDlection2018: Congressman Keith Ellison Edges Out Minnesota Attorney General Rival Who Sued Schools Over LGBT Student Rights

November 7, 2018

EDlection2018: Janet Mills Will Be Maine’s First Female Governor

November 7, 2018

EDlection2018: Minnesota’s Governor-Elect Tim Walz, a Former Teacher, Campaigned on the Most Traditional of Democratic Education Platforms

November 7, 2018

EDlection2018: Vowing to Arm Teachers and Fund Private School Vouchers, Ted Cruz Squeaks Past Beto O’Rourke to Hold On to Texas Senate Seat

November 6, 2018

EDlection2018: Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo Re-elected on a Post-Parkland School Safety Platform

November 6, 2018

October Education Surprise: New Front-runner in MN Attorney General Race Is Lawyer Who Sued Schools Over Transgender Bathrooms

October 30, 2018

Diploma Double-Down: New Orleans’s KIPP Renaissance High School Plans to Graduate the Class of 2020 as Juniors — College Juniors

October 22, 2018

Building Integrated Classrooms

Texas, 78207: America’s Most Radical School Integration Experiment

October 17, 2018

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The 74 Interview: Sen. Maggie Hassan on Moms in Congress, Advocating for Kids With Disabilities, and Special Ed & Classroom Innovation

October 15, 2018

Building Integrated Classrooms

A Special Ed Partnership Makes Texas History

October 8, 2018

Threading the Needle on School Reform in TX Senate Race

October 3, 2018

Building Integrated Classrooms

San Antonio’s Public Montessori Program, Designed for Diversity — and Inclusion

October 1, 2018

Building Integrated Classrooms

In Texas, School Integration That Celebrates Family Heritage

September 30, 2018

Building Integrated Classrooms

‘This Zip Code Is Their World’: San Antonio’s Ambitious Plan to Expand School Options — and Horizons

September 26, 2018

Building Integrated Classrooms

The Architect: How One Texas Innovation Officer Is Rethinking School Integration

September 25, 2018

Building Integrated Classrooms

78207: America’s Most Radical School Integration Experiment

September 25, 2018

How Can Parents Tell Whether a School Can Really Serve Their Special-Needs Child? These 7 Principles Can Help

September 17, 2018

The War That Wasn’t: A Year After Its Much-Hyped Launch, the NAACP’s Push for a Charter School Moratorium Has Run Out of Steam

September 13, 2018

In McAllen, Texas, Hotbed of Immigration Enforcement, All-Latino District Gets an A on State’s New School Report Card

August 26, 2018

When Higher Functioning Follows Form: Special-Needs Students Flourish in Sensory-Designed Schools

August 15, 2018

Reading, Writing, and … Renting? Airbnb Says 1 in 10 Hosts Is a Teacher, Estimates Typical Educator Adds $6,500 a Year to Annual Income

August 15, 2018

Parkland Suspect Sought Special Ed Help but Was Derailed by Tug-of-War With School. To Parents of Special Needs Kids, It’s a Familiar Story

August 13, 2018

Parkland Suspect Sought Special Ed Help but Was Derailed by Tug-of-War With School. To Parents of Special Needs Kids, It’s a Familiar Story

August 12, 2018

Starting This Fall, New Textbooks & Guidance to Help California K-12 Teachers Cover LGBT Issues and Historical Figures in the Classroom

Small-Town Boy Meets Big-District Politics: Can Cade Brumley Boost Student Learning, Teacher Morale in Louisiana’s Largest School System?

#NotHereToBakeCookies: To Get Her Kids the Schools They Deserve, Advocate & ‘Mom-in-Chief’ Keri Rodrigues Has Raised a Parent Army

With Reunification, New Orleans Becomes the First District in the Country to Oversee a Citywide System of Public Charter Schools. Will It Work?

DSST Public Schools Wins the 2018 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, Will Soon Serve One-Fourth of Denver’s Middle & High Schoolers

At Special Children’s Forum, California Governor Candidates Lament State’s Treatment of Kids & Point to Education as the Way Forward

Florida School Board Rejects 2 Proposed Charter Schools to Protest New State Laws

School Closures or State Takeover? Texas Ed Agency Weighs Options After Houston Fails to Take Action on 10 Underperforming Schools

Falling Into the Belief Gap: What It Feels Like to Realize Your Child’s Teachers Have Sized Him Up and Dumbed Down Their Estimations

Florida Judge Throws Out Suit Challenging Equitable Funding for Charter School Students

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74 Interview: Parent Activist Mary Moran on Engaging Families and Demanding Accountability in New Orleans Schools

After Free Speech Dustup at Suburban Minneapolis School, Student Walkout Is Peaceful … and Carefully Managed

Portland Media Reported on Teachers Accused of Abuse and Assault Being Placed on Paid Leave. Now, District May Give Union Right to Block Such Disclosures

February 27, 2018

The State of Education in Idaho: Low Teacher Pay & High Turnover, Secrecy on Accountability, Big Hurdles for School Choice & More

February 21, 2018

New Analysis: ‘No-Excuses’ Charter Schools Produce Huge Gains for Kids — and Could Close the Achievement Gap

February 20, 2018

Denver Backs Down on Huge Gains for Schools After Community Cries Foul Over ‘Inflated’ Report Cards

February 19, 2018

Reactions & Reflections

Analysis: Minnesota Cheers a Booming Graduation Rate — Even as Fewer of Those Grads Can Read or Do Math at a High School Level

February 7, 2018

What’s It Really Like Attending a Truly Innovative High School? 4 Students Give a Firsthand Look

February 4, 2018

Reactions & Reflections

After Super Bowl LII, These Minnesota Athletes Return to a High School Where 90% of Students Are Graded ‘Falling Behind’

February 1, 2018

Special Ed Shell Game in Texas. Who’s to Blame? Follow the Money.

January 23, 2018

With Churn at the Nation’s 3 Largest School Districts, Experts Agree: A Good Superintendent Is Hard to Find

January 17, 2018

Key Minnesota Desegregation Case Asks Chilling Question: Can Supreme Court Intervene to Guarantee an Adequate Public Education?

January 8, 2018

On Al Franken’s Last Day in the Senate, Remembering His Quiet Role as Education Gadfly

January 2, 2018

Analysis: Like ‘Death Tax,’ ‘Voucher School’ Is a Phrase That Aims for the Gut. It May Also Be ‘Fake News’

December 17, 2017

Who Owns Civil Rights? Two Wildly Different Visions of Schools, Choice, and Student Rights Collide One Day at a Minnesota University

December 10, 2017

Russlynn Ali on Sharing Lessons from the $102M XQ Super Schools Project — and Why Trump May Be Damaging School Choice

December 6, 2017

Into the Breach: South Carolina Cracks Down on Poor-Performing Virtual Charter Schools, Rejects Their Bid for New Sponsor

December 3, 2017

When Academic Gaps Spiral Year After Year: The Harrowing ‘Jenga’ of Lost Student Skills — Captured in One Chart

November 27, 2017

El Paso Schools Chief Fires Back After ‘Dirty Tricks’ Email, Demands New AFT Leadership

November 20, 2017

A Parent’s Plea: My 8-Year-Old Wants to Ride the Big Yellow Bus With Her Friends, but Her School District Says That’s Impossible

November 17, 2017

Texas AFT Email Reveals ‘Dirty Tricks’ Campaign to Sabotage District/Charter Partnership, Oust Superintendent

November 15, 2017

Inside the $1 Million Fight to Hold South Carolina’s For-Profit Virtual Charter Schools Accountable

November 7, 2017

Personalized Learning

5 Lessons Other Districts Can Take Away From Latest Rand Personalized Learning Study of Small High Schools

October 25, 2017

Portland Schools End Up in National Spotlight After Suing Parent Activist, Reporter Over Public Records

October 17, 2017

A Similar Past, a Hoped-For Future: Two Lawyers Each Strive to Open Their Own L.A. Charter School

October 16, 2017

Every Student Succeeds Act

Don’t Expect Betsy DeVos to Wade Into State-Level Showdowns Over Who Gets Final ESSA Approval, Expert Says

October 10, 2017

Reinventing America's Schools – New Orleans

How Educare Is Closing New Orleans’s Achievement Gap by Beginning Early Education at Birth

October 5, 2017

Reinventing America's Schools – New Orleans

The Turnaround Artists at the Center of InspireNOLA’s School Reboot? Parents

September 29, 2017

Reinventing America's Schools – New Orleans

NOLA Schools Went From F to C Post-Katrina. Here’s What the Hard Work of Going From C to A Looks Like

September 29, 2017

NOLA’s Rooted School Aims to ‘Beat the Streets’ by Graduating Students Ready for High-Tech Jobs

September 29, 2017

Writing to Heal: NOLA Program Uses Poetry, Essays to Help Students Confront Trauma

September 29, 2017

Reinventing America's Schools – New Orleans

Serious Play: Teaching New Orleans Parents How to Better Understand Child Development

September 29, 2017

Reinventing America's Schools – New Orleans

NOLA’s 4.0 Incubator Will Nurture 1,000 School Innovations This Year: Here Are Three

September 29, 2017

Analysis: How Are Minnesota’s Progressives Tackling School Inequity? By Choking Off Data Exposing Disparities

September 19, 2017

Reinventing America's Schools - Denver

‘Nothing Short of Phenomenal’: University Prep Turnaround Sees Colorado’s Highest Test Bump

September 17, 2017

Analysis: Christakis Enshrines the ‘Common’ Public School — but Somehow Forgets About the Achievement Gap

September 11, 2017

Reliving Katrina 12 Years Later as Harvey Hit Houston and NOLA Educators Planned on Repaying an Old Debt

September 5, 2017

NYC Numbers Show City’s Unassigned Teachers Paid $10,000 More on Average Than Those Teaching Kids Full Time

August 20, 2017

Analysis: An ESSA Tragedy in Minnesota, as State Launches Plan to Collect a River of Data — and then Bury It

August 18, 2017

A Massachusetts Teachers Union Votes to Kill a Successful Charter School, as Families Scramble for Answers

August 14, 2017

Jason Botel Reportedly Out at Education Dept. as Feds Reject ESSA Plan From DeVos’s Home State

August 14, 2017

Data Sharing, Data Dumping & Claims of ‘Academic Fraud’ in Tweetstorm Over Story About Louisiana Vouchers

Memphis, Tennessee NAACP Chapters Back Charter Schools, Distance Themselves From Call for Moratorium

When Charter Schools Open, Neighboring Schools Get Better: A New Study Finds 7 Reasons Why

Inside the NAACP’s New Strategy to Shut Down Charter Schools: A 50-State Legislative War

NAACP to Deliver Blow to Charter Schools Today After Public Hearings Critics Say Were Setups

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning for Every Student: How 2 Very Different School Systems Pursued a District-Wide Strategy

Analysis: As School Board Races Spiral in Denver and Los Angeles, Big Money Becomes the New Normal

February 27, 2017

Different Backgrounds, Same Long Charter Wait List Brings Texas Parents Together to Fight for More Schools

February 12, 2017

Once Largely Ignored, New Orleans Special Ed Students Find Meaning and Skills After High School

December 6, 2016

Few Fireworks in the New Orleans School Board Race — but That Doesn’t Mean All Is Well

November 2, 2016

In-Depth: Black Lives Matter’s Rashad Turner on Why He’s Quitting Over Charter School Attacks

September 18, 2016

gifted and talented

Raising Expectations at a San Antonio School Where Gifted Education is Applied to All

September 12, 2016

‘The Movement’s Been Hijacked’: A Black Lives Matter Leader Quits Over Public School Platform

September 7, 2016

A $50 Million Lawsuit Has St. Louis Parents, Kids and Educators Worried Their Schools May Have to Close

September 6, 2016

Minnesota’s Board of Teachers Stonewalls Teacher Licensing Changes to the Point of Contempt

In Detroit, Parent-Activists Are Going House to House To Ensure Every Child Gets Enrolled in School

Graduation Anxiety in New Orleans: Will State Budget Woes Kill a Life-Changing College Scholarship?

An Unexpected Choice for Minneapolis Schools Chief, An Alaskan Educator Promising Equity

Louisiana Turns the Page: 11 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Schools Set to Return to Local Control

LGBT Students Fight ‘Can’t Say Gay’ School Policies that Silence Teachers, Isolate Young People

The Desegregation War in Minnesota Heats Up, as State Judge Hands Charter School Advocates Key Win

Her Last Battle: Advocate for Black Students Back in the Fray to Save WA Charters

Personalized Learning

At Seattle’s Summit Sierra High School, Special Needs Students Find Success

January 25, 2016

How Minnesota’s Push to Integrate Schools Sparked a War Against Charters Serving Minority Families

January 4, 2016

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