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Beth Hawkins

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

‘Teaching as You’re Feeling’: St. Paul Teachers Share Their Classroom Realities

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Minnesota Districts, Teachers Union Sue Federal Government for Targeting Schools

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Mothers of Major Resistance: PTA Members Organize Minneapolis Relief Efforts

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Minneapolis Parents and Educators Describe Terror of ICE Raids, Call for Help

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As ICE Targets Twin Cities Schools & Bus Stops, Even Citizens Keep Kids Home

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Amid Fed Ramp-up and New Fears, Twin Cities Schools Offer Online Classes

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Minneapolis Schools Shut Down for 2 Days in Wake of ICE Clashes, Fatal Shooting

Jo Napolitano & Beth Hawkins

Before Special Ed, There Was the School-to-Asylum Pipeline. How One Lawsuit Helped End It

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Ancient Aquifers & Drones: NM Kids Learn to Save Precious Water for the Future

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Civic Engagement Rises Among LGBTQ Youth, But So Do Mental Health Challenges

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As the LGBTQ Youth Population Doubles, Number of Bills Targeting Them Triples

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‘Public Health Whiplash’: RFK Jr.’s Renewed Autism Plans Stoke Fresh Fears

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At a Storied NOLA High School, Alum Raises Up the Next Generation of Teachers

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John White on New Orleans Schools’ ‘Protracted March Toward a Basic Civil Right’

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No Idea Too Radical: Inside New Orleans’ Dramatic K-12 Turnaround After Katrina

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On Katrina’s 20th Anniversary, Patrick Dobard Revisits NOLA Reboot

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Exclusive: Decade After Damning Report, Minneapolis Still Fails Special Ed Kids

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For Decades, the Feds Were the Last, Best Hope for Special Ed Kids. What Happens Now?

Lauren Wagner & Beth Hawkins

With Welding Tools and a Time Clock, Giving New Mexico Kids Leg Up on the Future

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Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With Disabled Student in Lawsuit vs. District

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Trump Official’s Autism Schools Secluded and Restrained Students at High Rates

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SCOTUS to Rule in Case That Could Upend Enforcement of Disabled Students’ Rights

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Arizona Autism Charter School Founder Tapped as Ed Dept. Special Education Chief

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Not One Generation Removed, Disability Advocates Fear Return to a Dark Era

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Advocates Still Alarmed Even as HHS Walks Back Autism Registry Announcement

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Proposal to Create Federal Autism Registry Stokes Fear in Disability Advocates

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Head of New RFK Jr. Vaccine Study Practiced Unlicensed Medicine on Autistic Kids

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Isolation & Neglect: Disability Advocates Fear Return to a Bleak Past Under HHS

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New Report: Despite Red Ink & Academic Losses, School Boards Rarely Talk Budgets

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2 Texas Bills Tackle Long-Overdue Special Ed Reforms — & a $1.7B Funding Gap

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Minnesota Bills Would Roll Back Bans on Seclusion and Expulsion for K-3 Students

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Awash in Crises, New Orleans Searches for a New Superintendent — Again

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Rising Need, Falling Finances: Layoffs Hit LGBTQ Student Support Groups Hard

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Minnesota Autism Activist on Money, Power and What Special Ed Kids Really Need

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Advocates Fear RFK Jr. Could Reverse Decades of Progress for Autistic Kids

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Even in States Where You’re Supposed to ‘Say Gay,’ Fear Often Outweighs the Law

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Trump Orders Expanded Private School Choice, an End to ‘Radical Indoctrination’

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Why Robots Are Not Effective Tools for Supporting Autistic People

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Report: Charters’ Flexibility Can Enable Better Outcomes for Disabled Pupils

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Court Lets Louisiana Require Classroom Display of Ten Commandments — for Now

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‘We’re Here for You’: Election-Fueled Calls to LGBTQ Teen Suicide Hotlines Spike

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Democratic Frontrunner Matt Meyer Elected Delaware’s Next Governor

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October Surprise: NOLA Schools Learn They’ll Lose at Least $20M in Funding

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The Anti-Culture Warriors: Incubators Training Moderates to Run for School Board

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1st Federal Survey of Trans Students: 72% Feel ‘Hopeless,’ 1 in 4 Tried Suicide

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Report: Almost All Disabled Students Lack Access to College Readiness Programs

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Children’s Advocate Peggy Flanagan Poised to Become First Native Woman Governor

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18 Years, $2 Billion: Inside New Orleans’s Biggest School Recovery Effort in History

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Can Delaware’s Next Governor Fix a Jim Crow-Era Funding Formula?

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8 Things to Know About Tim Walz, the Democratic Ticket’s Top Teacher

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30% of LGBTQ Students Diagnosed With Disability, Twice the Rate as Kids Overall

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Researchers: Higher Special Education Funding Not Tied to Better Outcomes

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Advocates Fear Minnesota Students Will Again Be Subject to Restraint Used on George Floyd

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Report: Charter Schools Are Failing Students with Disabilities

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‘I Can’t Wait to Be Sued’: Louisiana Ten Commandments Law Not Just About Schools

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Washington State Schools Missed 8,500 Kids for Special Ed Referrals During COVID

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Report: Higher Rates of Depression, Anxiety for LGBTQ Teens Forcibly Outed

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With the Opening of a New School, New Orleans Is an All-Charter District No More

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$9 Million! Did New Orleans HS Grad Just Make History With College Scholarships?

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Wealthier and Whiter: Louisiana School District Secession Gets a Major Boost

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40% of LGBTQ Youth Considered Suicide in Last Year, 30% Victimized in School

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74 Interview: Minnesota’s Groundbreaking Push for Teacher Training on Ableism

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74 Interview: USC’s Morgan Polikoff on New Poll Data & the ‘Purple Classroom’

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Settlement: Florida Students, Teachers Can Say Gay; Schools Can’t Discriminate

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Exclusive: New Minneapolis Data Finds High Absenteeism Among Disabled Kids

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No More Cures, No More Fixes: How Autistic Leaders Are Changing the Therapy Debate

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America’s Most Popular Autism Therapy May Not Work — and May Seriously Harm Patients’ Mental Health

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Oklahoma Officials Under Fire Over Nonbinary Teen’s Death Following School Fight

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Survey: Teens Divided on Teaching Race, Gender Identity — Like Their Parents

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New Study: Two-Thirds of Teachers Censor Themselves Even When They Don’t Have To

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Why $2B in New School Funding Is Leaving Minnesota Districts Scrambling for Cash

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MN High Court: School Racial Imbalances Alone Don’t Violate State Constitution

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Report: 1.3M Teachers, 100,000 Professors Now Under ‘Educational Gag Orders’

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Desperate to Hire Special Ed Teachers? Try Looking in Regular Ed Classrooms

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The 74 Interview: Mohammed Choudhury on Stepping Down as Maryland Schools Chief

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Public Invited to Help Decide What Stays and Goes in St. Paul School Budget

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Attendance Gap: New Data from Minnesota Reveals Chasm in Chronic Absenteeism

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74 Interview: Time ≠ Learning — Tim Knowles on Scrapping the Carnegie Unit

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Of Rules & Law: Virginia’s Largest School Districts Won’t Adopt Gov. Youngkin’s New LGBTQ Edict

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Closing Time: San Antonio Supe Hopes Info Sharing, Help for Parents Can Ease School Shutdowns

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‘State of the States’: New Report Highlights Teacher Diversity Strategies

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Phoenix Teens Build Their Own High School Program From 500 Class, Career Options

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‘We Can’t Stay Where We Are’: The Democrat Behind the Houston Schools Takeover

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

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

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Minnesota Supreme Court Takes School Desegregation Case to the Kids

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Teacher Strike Delays Start of the New School Year in Seattle

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A Texas Muralist Paints Her Heart Out For Uvalde

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

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

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

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

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Tennessee Students Rebound to Pre-Pandemic Reading Proficiency

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How Libraries Came to be Sanctuaries for LGBTQ Kids

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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

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

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

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Threatened & Trolled, School Board Members Quit in Record Numbers

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The Undocumented Youth Changing New Mexico

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Mike Magee Leaving Chiefs to Be New Minerva University President

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Minneapolis Educators End 3-Week Walkout

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

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Minneapolis, St. Paul Educators Vote to Strike

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

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Inside a School for Unaccompanied Minors

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

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Report: Keeping Schools Open Isn’t Enough

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Educators' Mental Health Tied to Classroom Effectiveness

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

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Minnesota Judge Orders Desegregation Case to Trial

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Can Shrinking Schools Downsize Themselves?

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

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

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

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Incentives Boost Use of Quality Curriculum

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All-Charter District Seeks Superintendent

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Superintendent Michael Thomas on Changing a White School System

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Minneapolis Fed Maps the Achievement Gap

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

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Few Families Asked for Input on School Stimulus Spending

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Diverse Group of Parents Protest for Better Literacy Instruction

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

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

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EdNext Finds Drop in Support for All Reforms

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

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Thousands of Students, Teachers in Quarantine

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

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

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

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

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

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Can Doubling Down on School Reforms Avert COVID Classroom Crisis?

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New Data on Students with Disabilities Finds Opportunity and Risk

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

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

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Minneapolis Teens Walk Out to Protest Police Shootings

Beth Hawkins & Meghan Gallagher

A Lesson Plan on Daunte Wright and History

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Inside Louisiana’s ‘Equitable Recovery’ in Math Performance

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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25% of New Orleans Schools’ Charters Expiring

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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’

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

A Special Ed Partnership Makes Texas History

Beth Hawkins

Threading the Needle on School Reform in TX Senate Race

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

In Texas, School Integration That Celebrates Family Heritage

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

78207: America’s Most Radical School Integration Experiment

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins

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

Beth Hawkins